Invitation-only supragovernmental organization founded in 1973.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| David Abshire |
Diplomat |
11-Apr-1926 |
31-Oct-2014 |
US Ambassador to NATO, 1983-87 |
| Josef Ackermann |
Business |
7-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of Deutsche Bank |
| Umberto Agnelli |
Business |
1-Nov-1934 |
27-May-2004 |
Chairman of Fiat, 2003-04 |
| Paul Allaire |
Business |
21-Jul-1938 |
|
Twice CEO of Xerox |
| Graham T. Allison |
Scholar |
23-Mar-1940 |
|
Kennedy School of Government |
| Roger C. Altman |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Evercore Partners |
| Rona Ambrose |
Politician |
15-Mar-1969 |
|
Canadian MP, Edmonton--Spruce Grove |
| G. Allen Andreas |
Business |
22-Jun-1943 |
|
CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, 1999-2006 |
| Rand V. Araskog |
Business |
30-Oct-1931 |
|
CEO of ITT, 1979-98 |
| Michael Armacost |
Diplomat |
15-Apr-1937 |
|
US Ambassador to Japan, 1989-93 |
| Bruce Babbitt |
Politician |
27-Jun-1938 |
|
Governor of Arizona, 1978-87 |
| Zoë Baird |
Government |
20-Jun-1952 |
|
Atty Gen. nominee, thwarted by Nannygate |
| Charlene Barshefsky |
Diplomat |
11-Aug-1950 |
|
US Trade Representative, 1997-2001 |
| Riley P. Bechtel |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Bechtel |
| C. Fred Bergsten |
Economist |
23-Apr-1941 |
|
Institute for International Economics |
| Georges Berthoin |
Politician |
17-May-1925 |
|
Trilateral Commission Euro Chair, 1973-92 |
| Maurizio Bevilacqua |
Politician |
1-Jun-1960 |
|
Canadian MP, Vaughan |
| Carl Bildt |
Head of State |
15-Jul-1949 |
|
Foreign Minister of Sweden |
| Dennis C. Blair |
Government |
4-Feb-1947 |
|
Director of National Intelligence, 2009-10 |
| Geoffrey T. Boisi |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 2000-02 |
| Stephen W. Bosworth |
Diplomat |
4-Dec-1939 |
4-Jan-2016 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000 |
| John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
| Leon Brittan |
Politician |
25-Sep-1939 |
21-Jan-2015 |
UK Home Secretary, 1983-85 |
| Harold Brown |
Government |
19-Sep-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1977-81 |
| John H. Bryan |
Business |
5-Oct-1936 |
|
CEO of Sara Lee, 1975-2000 |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
| Louis C. Camilleri |
Business |
1955 |
|
CEO of Altria |
| Jimmy Carter |
Head of State |
1-Oct-1924 |
|
39th US President, 1977-81 |
| Gerhard Casper |
Educator |
25-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1992-2000 |
| Henri de Castries |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of AXA |
| Raymond Chrétien |
Diplomat |
20-May-1942 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the US, 1995-2000 |
| Bill Clinton |
Head of State |
19-Aug-1946 |
|
42nd US President, 1993-2001 |
| Eliot A. Cohen |
Government |
c. 1955 |
|
Prominent neoconservative |
| Marshall A. Cohen |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
CEO of Molson, 1988-96 |
| William Cohen |
Government |
28-Aug-1940 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1997-01 |
| William T. Coleman, Jr. |
Government |
7-Jul-1920 |
|
US Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77 |
| William T. Coleman III |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of BEA Systems, 1995-2001 |
| Timothy C. Collins |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
Private equity, Ripplewood Holdings |
| Alan Cranston |
Politician |
19-Jun-1914 |
31-Dec-2000 |
US Senator from California, 1969-93 |
| Michael J. Critelli |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Pitney Bowes, 1997-2007 |
| William J. Crowe, Jr. |
Government |
2-Jan-1925 |
18-Oct-2007 |
US Navy Admiral |
| Lloyd Cutler |
Attorney |
10-Nov-1917 |
8-May-2005 |
White House Counsel for Carter, Clinton |
| Douglas N. Daft |
Business |
1943 |
|
CEO of Coca Cola, 2000-04 |
| Richard Darman |
Government |
10-May-1943 |
25-Jan-2008 |
Carlyle Group member, former OMB Director |
| André Desmarais |
Business |
26-Oct-1956 |
|
Co-CEO, Power Corporation of Canada |
| James Dimon |
Business |
13-Mar-1956 |
|
CEO of JP Morgan Chase |
| Ken Duberstein |
Government |
21-Apr-1944 |
|
Reagan's Chief of Staff, 1988-89 |
| Lawrence Eagleburger |
Government |
1-Aug-1930 |
4-Jun-2011 |
US Secretary of State, 1992-93 |
| Robert A. Eckert |
Business |
14-Aug-1954 |
|
CEO of Mattel |
| Jessica P. Einhorn |
Government |
c. 1945 |
|
Dean, School of Advanced International Studies |
| Jeffrey E. Epstein |
Business |
20-Jan-1953 |
|
Reclusive money manager |
| William T. Esrey |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Sprint, 1988-2003 |
| Daniel J. Evans |
Politician |
16-Oct-1925 |
|
Governor of Washington, 1965-77 |
| Oscar Fanjul |
Business |
20-May-1949 |
|
Founder of Repsol SA |
| Dianne Feinstein |
Politician |
22-Jun-1933 |
|
US Senator from California |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Richard W. Fisher |
Business |
18-Mar-1949 |
|
President and CEO, Dallas Fed |
| Niall FitzGerald |
Business |
13-Sep-1945 |
|
Chairman of Reuters |
| Tom Foley |
Politician |
6-Mar-1929 |
18-Oct-2013 |
Speaker of the House, 1989-95 |
| Stephen Friedman |
Business |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
| Thomas Friedman |
Journalist |
20-Jul-1953 |
|
New York Times |
| Richard N. Gardner |
Diplomat |
9-Jul-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97 |
| David Gergen |
Columnist |
9-May-1942 |
|
Advisor to Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton |
| Louis V. Gerstner |
Business |
1-Mar-1942 |
|
CEO of IBM, 1993-2002 |
| Neil Goldschmidt |
Government |
16-Jun-1940 |
|
Governor of Oregon, 1987-91 |
| Joseph T. Gorman |
Business |
1-Oct-1937 |
|
CEO of TRW, 1988-2001 |
| Bill Graham |
Politician |
17-Mar-1939 |
|
Interim Leader, Canada's Liberal Party |
| Katharine Graham |
Publisher |
16-Jun-1917 |
17-Jul-2001 |
Washington Post publisher, 1966-79 |
| William H. Gray |
Politician |
20-Aug-1941 |
1-Jul-2013 |
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-91 |
| Jeffrey W. Greenberg |
Business |
1951 |
|
CEO of Marsh & McLennan, 1999-2004 |
| Maurice R. Greenberg |
Business |
4-May-1925 |
|
CEO of American International Group, 1967-2005 |
| Alan Greenspan |
Economist |
6-Mar-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 |
| James T. Hackett |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Anadarko Petroleum |
| Alexander Haig |
Government |
2-Dec-1924 |
20-Feb-2010 |
US Secretary of State, 1981-82 |
| Lee H. Hamilton |
Politician |
20-Apr-1931 |
|
9/11 Commission vice chairman |
| Sidney Harman |
Business |
5-Aug-1918 |
12-Apr-2011 |
Founder of Harman International |
| Carla Hills |
Diplomat |
3-Jan-1934 |
|
US Trade Representative, 1989-93 |
| James F. Hoge, Jr. |
Editor |
25-Dec-1935 |
|
Editor of Foreign Affairs |
| James R. Houghton |
Business |
6-Apr-1936 |
|
CEO of Corning, 2002-05 |
| David Howell |
Politician |
18-Jan-1936 |
|
Former MP, Guildford |
| Koh Boon Hwee |
Business |
? |
|
Chairman of DBS Group |
| Toomas Hendrik Ilves |
Head of State |
26-Dec-1953 |
|
President of Estonia |
| Robert S. Ingersoll |
Diplomat |
28-Jan-1914 |
22-Aug-2010 |
CEO of Borg-Warner, 1958-72 |
| Walter Isaacson |
Author |
20-May-1952 |
|
Former Managing Editor for Time |
| Josef Joffe |
Editor |
15-Mar-1944 |
|
Editor of Die Zeit |
| James A. Johnson |
Business |
24-Dec-1943 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1991-98 |
| Vernon Jordan |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
|
Advisor to Bill Clinton |
| Arnold Kanter |
Government |
27-Feb-1945 |
10-Apr-2010 |
Under Secy. of State for Political Affairs, 1991-93 |
| David T. Kearns |
Business |
11-Aug-1930 |
25-Feb-2011 |
CEO of Xerox, 1985-91 |
| Nan Keohane |
Scholar |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Political scientist |
| Yotaro Kobayashi |
Business |
25-Apr-1933 |
|
CEO of Fuji Xerox, Ltd. |
| Marie-Josée Kravis |
Economist |
11-Sep-1949 |
|
President of MoMA |
| Thomas G. Labrecque |
Business |
17-Sep-1938 |
16-Oct-2000 |
CEO of Chase Manhattan, 1990-96 |
| Otto Lambsdorff |
Politician |
20-Dec-1926 |
5-Dec-2009 |
German Economic Minister, 1977-84 |
| Robert W. Lane |
Business |
14-Nov-1949 |
|
CEO of Deere, 2000-09 |
| Jim Leach |
Politician |
15-Oct-1942 |
|
Congressman from Iowa, 1977-2007 |
| Pierre Lellouche |
Government |
3-May-1951 |
|
President of the NATO Assembly, 2004-06 |
| Jerry Levin |
Business |
6-May-1939 |
|
CEO of Time Warner, 2000-02 |
| Winston Lord |
Diplomat |
17-Aug-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85 |
| John A. MacNaughton |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board |
| Antonio Madero Bracho |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Founder, SANLUIS Corporación |
| Minoru Makihara |
Business |
12-Jan-1930 |
|
President of Mitsubishi, 1992-98 |
| Peter Mandelson |
Politician |
21-Oct-1953 |
|
EU Commissioner for Trade |
| Jessica Tuchman Mathews |
Government |
1946 |
|
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| Deryck Maughan |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Citigroup International, 1998-2002 |
| Harrison McCain |
Business |
3-Nov-1927 |
18-Mar-2004 |
Frozen french fry billionaire |
| William J. McDonough |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
President of New York Fed, 1993-2003 |
| Henry A. McKinnell, Jr. |
Business |
23-Feb-1943 |
|
CEO of Pfizer, 2001-06 |
| Robert McNamara |
Government |
9-Jun-1916 |
6-Jul-2009 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68 |
| Kiichi Miyazawa |
Head of State |
8-Oct-1919 |
28-Jun-2007 |
Prime Minister of Japan, 1991-93 |
| Mark Moody-Stuart |
Business |
15-Sep-1940 |
|
Chairman of Anglo American |
| William Niskanen |
Administrator |
13-Mar-1933 |
26-Oct-2011 |
Chairman of the Cato Institute |
| Indra Nooyi |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
CEO of PepsiCo |
| Harald Norvik |
Business |
21-Jun-1946 |
|
CEO of Statoil, 1988-99 |
| Lucio A. Noto |
Business |
1938 |
|
CEO of Mobil, 1994-99 |
| Joseph S. Nye |
Government |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 |
| David J. O'Reilly |
Business |
1947 |
|
CEO of Chevron, 2005-09 |
| Shijuro Ogata |
Economist |
? |
|
Trilateral Commission's Pacific Asia deputy |
| Michel Oksenberg |
Scholar |
12-Oct-1938 |
22-Feb-2001 |
Leading sinologist |
| Viktor Orbán |
Head of State |
31-May-1963 |
|
Prime Minister of Hungary |
| Henry D. Owen |
Diplomat |
26-Aug-1920 |
5-Nov-2011 |
US Ambassador at Large, 1977-81 |
| William J. Perry |
Government |
11-Oct-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1994-97 |
| Michael E. J. Phelps |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Westcoast Energy |
| Jaime Serra Puche |
Government |
11-Jan-1951 |
|
Mexican Secretary of Trade, 1988-94 |
| Franklin Raines |
Government |
14-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004 |
| Charles Rangel |
Politician |
11-Jun-1930 |
|
Congressman, New York 15th |
| Edwin O. Reischauer |
Diplomat |
15-Oct-1910 |
1-Sep-1990 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1961-66 |
| Rozanne L. Ridgway |
Diplomat |
22-Aug-1935 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for Europe, 1985-89 |
| Chuck Robb |
Politician |
26-Jun-1939 |
|
US Senator from Virginia, 1989-2001 |
| Charles W. Robinson |
Business |
7-Sep-1919 |
20-May-2014 |
Deputy Secretary of State, 1976-77 |
| David Rockefeller |
Business |
12-Jun-1915 |
|
Founder of the Trilateral Commission |
| Jay Rockefeller |
Politician |
18-Jun-1937 |
|
US Senator from West Virginia |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| William V. Roth, Jr. |
Politician |
22-Jul-1921 |
13-Dec-2003 |
US Senator from Delaware, 1971-2001 |
| David M. Rubenstein |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Director of the Carlyle Group |
| H. Onno Ruding |
Government |
15-Aug-1939 |
|
Dutch Finance Minister, 1982-89 |
| Renato Ruggiero |
Politician |
9-Apr-1930 |
4-Aug-2013 |
Director-General of the WTO, 1995-99 |
| Silvio Scaglia |
Business |
1958 |
|
FastWeb, Bablegum |
| Ronaldo H. Schmitz |
Business |
30-Oct-1938 |
|
CFO of BASF, 1984-90 |
| Kurt L. Schmoke |
Politician |
1-Dec-1949 |
|
Mayor of Baltimore, 1988-99 |
| William W. Scranton |
Politician |
19-Jul-1917 |
28-Jul-2013 |
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1963-67 |
| Raymond Seitz |
Diplomat |
8-Dec-1940 |
|
US Ambassador to the UK, 1991-94 |
| Donna Shalala |
Government |
14-Feb-1941 |
|
Secretary of HHS, 1993-2001 |
| Albert Shanker |
Labor Leader |
14-Sep-1928 |
22-Feb-1997 |
American Federation of Teachers |
| Peter Shore |
Politician |
20-May-1924 |
24-Sep-2001 |
Former MP, Stepney |
| C. J. Silas |
Business |
15-Apr-1932 |
|
CEO of Phillips Petroleum, 1985-94 |
| Anne-Marie Slaughter |
Government |
27-Sep-1958 |
|
Director of Policy Planning, State Dept. |
| Joan Spero |
Diplomat |
2-Oct-1944 |
|
Under Secretary of State, 1993-97 |
| James B. Steinberg |
Government |
7-May-1953 |
|
Deputy Secretary of State |
| Fritz Stern |
Historian |
2-Feb-1926 |
|
German historian |
| Thorvald Stoltenberg |
Politician |
8-Jul-1931 |
|
Norwegian Foreign Minister, 1990-93 |
| Robert S. Strauss |
Diplomat |
19-Oct-1918 |
19-Mar-2014 |
US Ambassador to Russia, 1991-92 |
| Barbara Stymiest |
Business |
13-Jun-1956 |
|
COO of Royal Bank of Canada |
| Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
| Peter Sutherland |
Government |
25-Apr-1946 |
|
First Director General of the WTO |
| Strobe Talbott |
Government |
25-Apr-1946 |
|
Time journalist, Deputy Secy. of State |
| John A. Thain |
Business |
26-May-1955 |
|
CEO of CIT Group |
| Gaston Thorn |
Head of State |
3-Sep-1928 |
26-Aug-2007 |
Prime Minister of Luxembourg, 1974-79 |
| Frances Fragos Townsend |
Government |
28-Dec-1961 |
|
White House Homeland Security Advisor 2004-08 |
| Cyrus Vance |
Government |
27-Mar-1917 |
12-Jan-2002 |
US Secretary of State, 1977-80 |
| George Vasiliou |
Head of State |
20-May-1931 |
|
President of Cyprus, 1988-93 |
| Paul Volcker |
Economist |
5-Sep-1927 |
|
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87 |
| Caspar Weinberger |
Government |
18-Aug-1917 |
28-Mar-2006 |
Iran-Contra figure pardoned by Bush |
| Marina v.N. Whitman |
Economist |
6-Mar-1935 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73 |
| Karen Hastie Williams |
Business |
30-Sep-1944 |
|
Retired Partner, Crowell & Moring |
| Robert N. Wilson |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Vice Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, 1989-2003 |
| Paul Wolfowitz |
Government |
22-Dec-1943 |
|
President of the World Bank, 2005-07 |
| Raul Yzaguirre |
Activist |
22-Jul-1939 |
|
National Council of La Raza |
| Fareed Zakaria |
Journalist |
20-Jan-1965 |
|
Time columnist |
| Lorenzo H. Zambrano |
Business |
27-Mar-1944 |
14-May-2014 |
CEO of Cemex |
| Robert Zoellick |
Government |
25-Jul-1953 |
|
World Bank president, 2007-12 |