Foreign policy thinktank founded in the 1960s. Hosts an annual lunch leading up to the Alfalfa Club dinner.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| David Abshire |
Government |
11-Apr-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to NATO, 1983-87 |
| Madeleine Albright |
Diplomat |
15-May-1937 |
|
Bill Clinton's Secretary of State |
| Richard V. Allen |
Government |
? |
|
Reagan National Security Advisor |
| George Argyros |
Business |
4-Feb-1937 |
|
Billionaire |
| Anne L. Armstrong |
Government |
27-Dec-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to the UK, 1976-77 |
| Howard Baker |
Government |
15-Nov-1925 |
|
Reagan's Chief of Staff, 1987-88 |
| Ehud Barak |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1942 |
|
Prime Minister of Israel 1999-2001 |
| Wayne L. Berman |
Activist |
8-Nov-1956 |
|
Washington lobbyist |
| Charles G. Boyd |
Military |
15-Apr-1938 |
|
Retired General, US Air Force |
| Reginald K. Brack |
Business |
26-Aug-1937 |
|
CEO of Time Inc., 1986-94 |
| William E. Brock |
Politician |
23-Nov-1930 |
|
US Secretary of Labor, 1985-87 |
| Harold Brown |
Government |
19-Sep-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1977-81 |
| Keith L. Brown |
Diplomat |
18-Jun-1925 |
|
US Ambassador to Denmark, 1989-92 |
| Michael W. Brown |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CFO of Microsoft, 1994-97 |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
| Richard R. Burt |
Diplomat |
3-Feb-1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany, 1985-89 |
| Stephen Cambone |
Government |
c. 1951 |
|
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence |
| Wesley Clark |
Military |
23-Dec-1944 |
|
Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000 |
| William Clark, Jr. |
Diplomat |
12-Oct-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to India, 1989-92 |
| Marshall A. Cohen |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
CEO of Molson, 1988-96 |
| William Cohen |
Government |
28-Aug-1940 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1997-01 |
| J. Michael Cook |
Business |
16-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Deloitte & Touche, 1989-99 |
| James E. Copeland, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Deloitte & Touche, 1999-2003 |
| Chester A. Crocker |
Government |
29-Oct-1941 |
|
Asst. Secy. State, African Affairs, 1981-89 |
| Douglas N. Daft |
Business |
1943 |
|
CEO of Coca Cola, 2000-04 |
| Richard Danzig |
Government |
8-Sep-1944 |
|
US Secretary of the Navy, 1998-2001 |
| Robert A. Day |
Business |
1943 |
|
Billionaire, Founder of TCW |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave |
Journalist |
1926 |
|
Washington Times, Insight magazine |
| Joseph S. Farland |
Diplomat |
11-Aug-1914 |
28-Jan-2007 |
US Ambassador to Iran, 1972-73 |
| Edwin Feulner |
Activist |
12-Aug-1941 |
|
Heritage Foundation founder |
| Henrietta Holsman Fore |
Government |
c. 1948 |
|
Acting Administrator, USAID |
| Edward M. Gabriel |
Diplomat |
1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Morocco, 1998-2001 |
| Timothy F. Geithner |
Government |
18-Aug-1961 |
|
President of the New York Fed |
| Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. |
Government |
15-Oct-1947 |
|
IRS Commissioner, 1989-92 |
| Joseph T. Gorman |
Business |
1-Oct-1937 |
|
CEO of TRW, 1988-2001 |
| C. Boyden Gray |
Government |
6-Feb-1943 |
|
Conservative activist, lobbyist |
| Alexander Haig |
Government |
2-Dec-1924 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1981-82 |
| Margaret A. Hamburg |
Government |
1955 |
|
New York City Health Commissioner, 1991-97 |
| John J. Hamre |
Government |
3-Jul-1950 |
|
Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1997-1999 |
| Lloyd N. Hand |
Attorney |
31-Jan-1929 |
|
Chief of Protocol for Johnson |
| C. Robert Henrikson |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of MetLife |
| Carla Hills |
Diplomat |
3-Jan-1934 |
|
US Trade Representative, 1989-93 |
| Roderick M. Hills |
Politician |
9-Mar-1931 |
|
SEC Chairman, 1975-77 |
| Karen Elliott House |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1947 |
|
Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2002-06 |
| Robert E. Hunter |
Diplomat |
c. 1940 |
|
US Ambassador to NATO, 1993-98 |
| William G. Hyland |
Government |
18-Jan-1929 |
25-Mar-2008 |
Editor of Foreign Affairs, 1984-93 |
| E. Neville Isdell |
Business |
8-Jun-1943 |
|
CEO of Coca Cola |
| Bruce Jackson |
Government |
? |
|
Project on Transitional Democracies |
| Henry Kissinger |
Government |
27-May-1923 |
|
Secretly bombed Cambodia |
| John Kornblum |
Diplomat |
1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany, 1997-2001 |
| Penne Percy Korth |
Diplomat |
3-Nov-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Mauritius, 1989-92 |
| Michael Ledeen |
Government |
1-Aug-1941 |
|
Neoconservative activist |
| Roger S. Leeds |
Business |
? |
|
Emerging Markets Private Equity Association |
| Leonard H. Marks |
Diplomat |
5-Mar-1916 |
11-Aug-2006 |
Washington lawyer, diplomat |
| Donald Marron |
Business |
21-Jul-1934 |
|
PaineWebber CEO |
| Richard T. McCormack |
Diplomat |
6-Mar-1941 |
|
US Ambassador to the OAS, 1985-89 |
| Bud McFarlane |
Government |
12-Jul-1937 |
|
Iran-Contra figure |
| Carola McGiffert |
Government |
? |
|
Center for Strategic & International Studies |
| Mack McLarty |
Government |
1946 |
|
White House Chief of Staff, 1993-94 |
| Ann Dore McLaughlin |
Government |
16-Nov-1941 |
|
US Secretary of Labor, 1987-89 |
| Laurence H. Meyer |
Economist |
8-Mar-1944 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1996-2002 |
| Franklin C. Miller |
Government |
Oct-1950 |
|
National Security Council, 2001-05 |
| Robert Mosbacher |
Government |
11-Mar-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Commerce 1989-92 |
| David C. Mulford |
Business |
1937 |
|
US Ambassador to India |
| Richard W. Murphy |
Diplomat |
1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1974-78 |
| Masahisa Naitoh |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Institute of Energy Economics, Japan |
| Homer A. Neal |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1942 |
|
Director of the ATLAS Project |
| Robert G. Neumann |
Diplomat |
2-Jan-1916 |
18-Jun-1999 |
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1969-73 |
| Edward N. Ney |
Business |
26-May-1925 |
|
CEO of Young & Rubicam, 1970-86 |
| Sam Nunn |
Politician |
8-Sep-1938 |
|
US Senator from Georgia, 1972-97 |
| Joseph Nye |
Government |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 |
| Ronald D. Palmer |
Diplomat |
22-May-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Mauritius, 1986-89 |
| William G. Parrett |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of Deloitte Touche Tomatsu, 2003-07 |
| Heinz C. Prechter |
Business |
1942 |
6-Jul-2001 |
The sunroof king |
| Otto J. Reich |
Diplomat |
16-Oct-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Venezuela, 1986-89 |
| Mitchell B. Reiss |
Government |
? |
|
Director of Policy Planning, 2003-05 |
| Mercer Reynolds |
Politician |
17-Jun-1945 |
|
Chief fundraiser behind GWB presidential campaigns |
| Paul Craig Roberts |
Economist |
1939 |
|
The Supply-Side Revolution |
| Felix Rohatyn |
Business |
29-May-1928 |
|
Financier, Lazard Frères |
| Francis Rooney |
Business |
4-Dec-1953 |
|
US Ambassador to the Vatican |
| Charles A. Sanders |
Business |
c. 1932 |
|
CEO of Glaxo, 1989-95 |
| Richard Scaife |
Activist |
3-Jul-1932 |
|
The Republican George Soros |
| Robert A. Scalapino |
Scholar |
1919 |
|
Longtime Asia scholar at Berkeley |
| James R. Schlesinger |
Government |
15-Feb-1929 |
|
Served Nixon, Ford, Carter |
| William Schreyer |
Business |
c. 1927 |
|
CEO of Merrill Lynch, 1984-92 |
| Brent Scowcroft |
Government |
19-Mar-1925 |
|
National Security Advisor to Ford and GHWB |
| Peter Sebastian |
Diplomat |
19-Jun-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1984-87 |
| Dimitri K. Simes |
Government |
? |
|
Nixon Center |
| Walter B. Slocombe |
Government |
23-Sep-1941 |
|
Defense analyst |
| Keith C. Smith |
Diplomat |
1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Lithuania, 1997-2000 |
| William French Smith |
Government |
26-Aug-1917 |
29-Oct-1990 |
U.S. Attorney General 1981-85 |
| Robert S. Strauss |
Diplomat |
19-Oct-1918 |
|
US Ambassador to Russia, 1991-92 |
| James Symington |
Politician |
28-Sep-1927 |
|
Congressman from Missouri, 1969-77 |
| James D. Theberge |
Diplomat |
28-Dec-1930 |
20-Jan-1988 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1982-85 |
| Rex W. Tillerson |
Business |
23-Mar-1952 |
|
CEO of Exxon Mobil |
| Harlan Ullman |
Columnist |
15-Mar-1941 |
|
Shock and Awe |
| David M. Walker |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
US Comptroller General |
| Murray L. Weidenbaum |
Economist |
1927 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82 |
| Togo West |
Government |
21-Jun-1942 |
|
US Secretary of the Army, Veterans Affairs |
| Frederick B. Whittemore |
Business |
c. 1931 |
|
Former Partner, Morgan Stanley |
| George Will |
Columnist |
4-May-1941 |
|
Conservative pundit, baseball lover |
| Ernest J. Wilson III |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Dean, Annenberg School for Communication |
| James Woolsey |
Government |
21-Sep-1941 |
|
CIA Director, 1993-95 |
| Steve Wynn |
Business |
27-Jan-1942 |
|
Las Vegas billionaire |
| Anthony Zinni |
Military |
17-Sep-1943 |
|
Former C-in-C, U.S. Central Command |
| Robert Zoellick |
Government |
25-Jul-1953 |
|
World Bank president |
| John Zogby |
Business |
1948 |
|
Pollster |
