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Board of Directors
Chairman
Cofounder and Co-chairman, The Carlyle Group
Vice Chairman
Cofounder, Centerview Partners
Vice Chairman
CEO, Global Strategic Insights
Chair, National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board, NASA
Partner, Venrock
Founder and CEO, RockCreek
Moderator, Face the Nation; Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, CBS News
President, American University
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Chairman and Managing Director, General Catalyst
Executive Chairman and CEO, Cerevel Therapeutics
Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group
Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
CEO, Citi
Chief Investment Officer, Founder, Managing Partner, Cyrus Capital Partners L.P.
President, Warburg Pincus
Chairman and CEO, Morgan Stanley
President, Council on Foreign Relations
Principal, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC
Former US FDA Commissioner; Former Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Senior Vice President, Head of Technology and Society, Google LLC
Professor of National Security, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Managing Director, Insight Partners
Managing Partner and Cofounder, Recognize
Founder and CEO, EDEN Productions
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet and Google
Founder and President, Emerson Collective
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Executive Vice President for Corporate Affairs, Corporate Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer, Activision Blizzard
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Estée Lauder Companies
Vice Chairman, S&P Global
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
Emeritus and Honorary
Honorary Vice Chairman
Chairman Emeritus
Chairman Emeritus
Officers
David M. Rubenstein
Chairman
Blair W. Effron
Vice Chairman
Jami Miscik
Vice Chairman
Richard Haass
President
Senior Leadership
Keith Olson
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Irina A. Faskianos
Vice President for the National Program & Outreach
Caroline Netchvolodoff
Vice President, Education
Stephanie Solomon
Vice President; Chief Revenue Officer, Foreign Affairs
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Suzanne Helm
Vice President, Philanthropy and Corporate Relations
Shannon K. O'Neil
Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies
Jeffrey A. Reinke
Chief of Staff to the President, Secretary of the Corporation
Nancy D. Bodurtha
Vice President, Meetings and Membership
Jan Mowder Hughes
Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Iva Zorić
Vice President, Global Communications and Media Relations
Executive Committee
David M. Rubenstein
Chair
Blair W. Effron
Vice Chair
Jami Miscik
Vice Chair
Tony Coles
Stephen Freidheim
Timothy F. Geithner
James Manyika
Janet Napolitano
Richard L. Plepler
Audit Committee
James Manyika
Chair
Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss
Frank Brosens
Gail D. Fosler
Michael D. Granoff
Frances Fragos Townsend
Compensation Committee
David M. Rubenstein
Chair
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Blair W. Effron
Timothy F. Geithner
Jami Miscik
Corporate Affairs Committee
Blair W. Effron
Chair
Jonathan S. Banner
Bart Friedman
Gary Ginsberg
James P. Gorman
Maurice R. Greenberg
Andrew Gundlach
Donna J. Hrinak
Virginia A. Kamsky
Edward S. Knight
Charles Phillips
Ruth Porat
Jeffrey Rosen
Thakur Sharma
Frederick O. Terrell
Graves Tompkins
Christopher H. Turner
Enzo Viscusi
Development Committee
David M. Rubenstein
Chair
Blair W. Effron
Janet Napolitano
Finance and Budget Committee
Timothy F. Geithner
Chair
Roger C. Altman
Laurence D. Fink
Gail D. Fosler
Stephen Freidheim
Joachim Gfoeller Jr.
Michael D. Granoff
Henry Kaufman
Marc Lasry
Robert Millard
Joel W. Motley
Scott L. Swid
Tracey T. Travis
Foreign Affairs Committee
Jami Miscik
Chair
Jesse H. Ausubel
Peter E. Bass
John B. Bellinger III
David G. Bradley
Kenneth I. Chenault
Susan D. Chira
Cesar Conde
Jessica P. Einhorn
Francis Fukuyama
Thomas H. Glocer
Adi Ignatius
Jeh Charles Johnson
Charles R. Kaye
William H. McRaven
Michael J. Col. Meese
Neal S. Wolin
Daniel H. Yergin
Investment Committee
Stephen Freidheim
Chair
Steven A. Tananbaum
Vice Chair
Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss
James P. Gorman
J. Tomilson Hill
Deven J. Parekh
Richard E. Salomon
Robert F. Wallace
Observer
Meetings Committee
Richard L. Plepler
Chair
Christina A. Bennett
Jason Bordoff
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
Kenneth I. Chenault
Tony Coles
JC de Swaan
Esther Dyson
Tim Ferguson
Sheri L. Fink
Rana Foroohar
Andrew P. Heaney
Mandë N. Holford
Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt
Nancy A. Lieberman
Scott Malcomson
Mora L. McLean
Jan Nicholson
Mustafa S. Riffat
Jeffrey R. Shafer
Mitchell D. Silber
P. J. Simmons
Sylvana Q. Sinha
Sonya Stokes
Cathy L. Taylor
Amina Tirana
Emerita Torres
Brett I.W. Zbar
Membership Committee
Tony Coles
Chair
Mona Aboelnaga Kanaan
Thad W. Allen
Mark Angelson
Nicholas F. Beim
Heidi Crebo-Rediker
Thomas J. Culora
Maria Freire
Bart Friedman
Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg
Joseph K. Hurd III
Robert W. Jordan
Tracy B. McKibben
Deven J. Parekh
Luis J. Perez
Jeffrey Rosen
Raj Shah
Mariko Silver
Frances Fragos Townsend
Vin Weber
Term Membership Subcommittee
Saj Cherian
Chair
David R. Ayón
Elisa Basnight
Mark Blumling
Tressa S. Guenov
Jay Lemery
Robert J. Lempert
Justin Muzinich
Jay M. Parker
Celina B. Realuyo
Lincoln C. Singleton
Allison K. Stanger
Angela Sun
Ruti G. Teitel
Cindy Tindell
Amina Tirana
Phoebe L. Yang
National Program Committee
Janet Napolitano
Chair
Diana Alleva Cáceres
Ekpedeme M. Bassey
Kevin M. Brown
Dan Caldwell
Ash Carter
Carmen Chang
Vin Gupta
Mimi L. Haas
Lyric Hughes Hale
Edward T. Hightower
Scott Holcomb
Tim K. Hsia
William Curt Hunter
Nancy A. Jarvis
Suzanne F. Johnson
Jane Kang
Michael Kavoukjian
Kathryn C. Lavelle
James Manyika
Kimberly Marteau Emerson
Susan R. McCaw
William H. McRaven
M. Diana Helweg Newton
Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Ruth Porat
Laurene Powell Jobs
Kal Raustiala
L. Rafael Reif
Ana Salas Siegel
Farah Stockman
James S. Taylor
Nominating and Governance Committee
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Chair
Jonathan E. Colby
Cesar Conde
Helima Croft
Kim Gordon Davis
Marlene Hess
Jeh Charles Johnson
Juliette Kayyem
Jon Liebman
Jami Miscik
Pamela S. Passman
Kimberly Querrey
Emily Rafferty
Stanley S. Shuman
Tracey T. Travis
Studies Committee
Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Chair
Lisa Anderson
Nicholas F. Beim
Meena Bose
Charles Boustany Jr.
Kevin J. Delaney
Nathaniel C. Fick
Stephen J. Hadley
Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg
Charles F. Kalmbach
Ann F. Kaplan
Robert Katz
Timothy M. Kingston
Carie A. Lemack
Marcel J. Lettre
Michael Levi
Rebecca Patterson
Charles Phillips
Eduardo Porter
L. Rafael Reif
David Shambaugh
David Shuman
James Stavridis
Richard R. Verma
Fareed Zakaria
Washington Program Committee
Thad W. Allen
Nicole M. Bibbins Sedaca
Ché Bolden
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Guillermo S. Christensen
Joy A. de Menil
Karen J. DeYoung
Kimberly Dozier
David Ensor
Diana Farrell
Betsy Fischer Martin
Stephen J. Hadley
Tami Hultman
Patricia M. Kim
Tod Lindberg
Mary Beth Long
Kezia McKeague
Douglas A. Ollivant
Linda Robinson
Stanley O. Roth
Neil Shenai
Kristen Silverberg
Puneet Talwar
Kehinde A. Togun
Vin Weber
Mona Yacoubian
Daniel H. Yergin
Juan C. Zarate
For past directors and officers please see our Historical Roster.