Nonprofit business leadership organization, founded in 1949.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Madeleine Albright |
Diplomat |
15-May-1937 |
|
Bill Clinton's Secretary of State |
| Robert O. Anderson |
Business |
13-Apr-1917 |
2-Dec-2007 |
CEO of ARCO, 1966-86 |
| Paul V. Applegarth |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO, Millenium Challenge Corporation, 2004-05 |
| Michael Armacost |
Diplomat |
15-Apr-1937 |
|
US Ambassador to Japan, 1989-93 |
| Richard Armitage |
Government |
26-Apr-1945 |
|
US Deputy Secretary of State, 2001-05 |
| Merribel S. Ayres |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Lighthouse Consulting Group |
| Prince Bandar bin Sultan |
Diplomat |
2-Mar-1949 |
|
Saudi Arabia Ambassador to U.S. |
| Mercedes Bass |
Socialite |
? |
|
Wife of Sid Bass |
| Berl Bernhard |
Attorney |
7-Sep-1929 |
|
Co-Founder, Verner Liipfert |
| Georges Berthoin |
Politician |
17-May-1925 |
|
Trilateral Commission Euro Chair, 1973-92 |
| Coit D. Blacker |
Government |
c. 1950 |
|
Institute for International Studies, Stanford |
| Robert D. Blackwill |
Diplomat |
1939 |
|
US Ambassador to India, 2001-03 |
| Sally Blount |
Educator |
c. 1961 |
|
Dean, Kellogg School of Management |
| Gina Boswell |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
Senior Alberto-Culver executive |
| John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
| Andrew Brimmer |
Economist |
13-Sep-1926 |
7-Oct-2012 |
Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74 |
| Stephen B. Burbank |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
UPenn Law Professor |
| Richard R. Burt |
Diplomat |
3-Feb-1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany, 1985-89 |
| Kurt M. Campbell |
Government |
1957 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for East Asian Affairs |
| Pamela L. Carter |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
EVP at Cummins |
| Henry Catto |
Diplomat |
6-Dec-1930 |
18-Dec-2011 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1989-91 |
| Richard C. Clark |
Politician |
14-Sep-1928 |
|
US Senator from Iowa, 1973-79 |
| Emanuel Cleaver |
Politician |
26-Oct-1944 |
|
Congressman, Missouri 5th |
| Harlan Cleveland |
Government |
19-Jan-1918 |
30-May-2008 |
Futurist, diplomat |
| Eliot A. Cohen |
Government |
c. 1955 |
|
Prominent neoconservative |
| Deborah A. Coleman |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
SmartForest Ventures |
| Lester Crown |
Business |
7-Jun-1925 |
|
CEO of Henry Crown & Co. |
| Susan Crown |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
VP at Henry Crown and Company |
| Ruth A. Davis |
Diplomat |
28-Mar-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Benin, 1992-95 |
| John Doerr |
Business |
29-Jun-1951 |
|
Silicon Valley venture capitalist |
| Bill Donaldson |
Government |
2-Jun-1931 |
|
SEC Chairman, 2003-05 |
| Thomas E. Donilon |
Government |
14-May-1955 |
|
US National Security Advisor |
| Arne Duncan |
Educator |
6-Nov-1964 |
|
US Secretary of Education |
| Mickey Edwards |
Politician |
12-Jul-1937 |
|
Congressman from Oklahoma, 1977-93 |
| Michael Eisner |
Business |
7-Mar-1942 |
|
CEO of Disney, 1984-2005 |
| Henrietta Holsman Fore |
Government |
c. 1948 |
|
Acting Administrator, USAID |
| Stephen Friedman |
Business |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
| Richard N. Gardner |
Diplomat |
9-Jul-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97 |
| Patrick R. Gaston |
Business |
5-Aug-1957 |
|
President, Verizon Foundation |
| David Gergen |
Columnist |
9-May-1942 |
|
Advisor to Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton |
| Gabrielle Giffords |
Politician |
8-Jun-1970 |
|
Congresswoman from Arizona, 2007-12 |
| Gabrielle E. Greene |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Villanueva Companies |
| Gerald Greenwald |
Business |
11-Sep-1935 |
|
CEO of United Air Lines, 1994-99 |
| Patrick W. Gross |
Business |
15-May-1944 |
|
Co-Founder, American Management Systems |
| Richard Haass |
Government |
28-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Chuck Hagel |
Politician |
4-Oct-1946 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 2013-15 |
| Sidney Harman |
Business |
5-Aug-1918 |
12-Apr-2011 |
Founder of Harman International |
| Kamala Harris |
Attorney |
20-Oct-1964 |
|
Attorney General of California |
| Rita E. Hauser |
Activist |
12-Jul-1934 |
|
Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan |
| Michael Hawley |
Photographer |
18-Nov-1961 |
|
Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey |
| Marian L. Heard |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Oxen Hill Partners |
| Linda A. Hill |
Educator |
c. 1957 |
|
Harvard Business School |
| W. Hayne Hipp |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Liberty Corp., 1979-2006 |
| Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. |
Business |
12-Aug-1936 |
|
CEO of Hallmark, 1986-2001 |
| Deal Hudson |
Religion |
30-Nov-1949 |
|
Karl Rove's favorite Catholic |
| Robert J. Hurst |
Business |
1945 |
|
Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2004 |
| 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 |
| Alphonso Jackson |
Government |
9-Sep-1945 |
|
US Secretary of HUD, 2004-08 |
| Mae C. Jemison |
Astronaut |
17-Oct-1956 |
|
First African-American woman in space |
| Suzanne Nora Johnson |
Business |
14-May-1957 |
|
Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 2004-07 |
| Bill Joy |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1954 |
|
BSD designer, C shell, vi, Java |
| Peter R. Kann |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Dow Jones, 1991-2006 |
| Arnold Kanter |
Government |
27-Feb-1945 |
10-Apr-2010 |
Under Secy. of State for Political Affairs, 1991-93 |
| Robert D. Kennedy |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
CEO of Union Carbide, 1986-95 |
| Bobbie Kilberg |
Administrator |
25-Oct-1944 |
|
Northern Virginia Technology Council |
| Henry Kissinger |
Government |
27-May-1923 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1973-77 |
| Charles B. Knapp |
Educator |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
President, University of Georgia, 1987-97 |
| Yotaro Kobayashi |
Business |
25-Apr-1933 |
|
CEO of Fuji Xerox, Ltd. |
| David H. Koch |
Business |
3-May-1940 |
|
Conservative philanthropist, Koch heir |
| Juanita M. Kreps |
Government |
11-Jan-1921 |
5-Jul-2010 |
US Secretary of Commerce, 1977-79 |
| Leonard Lauder |
Business |
19-Mar-1933 |
|
Chairman of Estee Lauder |
| Leslie Lenkowsky |
Government |
30-Mar-1946 |
|
Philanthropic Studies |
| Winston Lord |
Diplomat |
17-Aug-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85 |
| Princeton Lyman |
Diplomat |
20-Nov-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to South Africa, 1992-95 |
| Kevin J. Martin |
Government |
14-Dec-1966 |
|
FCC Chairman, 2005-09 |
| John P. Mascotte |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of The Continental Corporation, 1983-95 |
| Sylvia M. Mathews |
Administrator |
1965 |
|
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Marissa Mayer |
Business |
30-May-1975 |
|
CEO of Yahoo! |
| William E. Mayer |
Business |
1940 |
|
Former CEO of First Boston |
| John W. McCarter, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of the Field Museum |
| Ann Dore McLaughlin |
Government |
16-Nov-1941 |
|
US Secretary of Labor, 1987-89 |
| Robert McNamara |
Government |
9-Jun-1916 |
6-Jul-2009 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68 |
| Philip Merrill |
Publisher |
28-Apr-1934 |
10-Jun-2006 |
Capital Gazette Communications |
| George Moose |
Diplomat |
23-Jun-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN in Europe, 1998-2001 |
| Jonathan D. Moreno |
Scholar |
11-Jun-1952 |
|
Undue Risk |
| Robert Mosbacher |
Government |
11-Mar-1927 |
24-Jan-2010 |
US Secretary of Commerce, 1989-92 |
| Marc B. Nathanson |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Billionaire, Falcon Cable TV |
| Paul Nitze |
Diplomat |
16-Jan-1907 |
19-Oct-2004 |
US cold warrior |
| Queen Noor |
Royalty |
23-Aug-1951 |
|
Queen of Jordan |
| Joseph S. Nye |
Government |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 |
| James E. Oesterreicher |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of JC Penney, 1995-2000 |
| Sean Parnell |
Politician |
19-Nov-1962 |
|
Governor of Alaska |
| William J. Patterson |
Business |
27-Jan-1962 |
24-Sep-2010 |
SPO Partners & Co. |
| Erik Paulsen |
Politician |
14-May-1965 |
|
Congressman, Minnesota 3rd |
| John J. Phelan, Jr. |
Business |
7-May-1931 |
4-Aug-2012 |
CEO of the NYSE, 1984-91 |
| Charles Powell |
Business |
6-Jun-1941 |
|
Private Secretary to Thatcher, 1983-90 |
| Michael Powell |
Government |
23-Mar-1963 |
|
FCC Chairman 2001-05, Colin Powell's son |
| Lynda Resnick |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Roll International |
| Susan E. Rice |
Diplomat |
17-Nov-1964 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN |
| Ann Richards |
Politician |
1-Sep-1933 |
13-Sep-2006 |
Governor of Texas, 1991-95 |
| William D. Rogers |
Diplomat |
12-May-1927 |
22-Sep-2007 |
Under Secretary of State, 1976-77 |
| Dennis B. Ross |
Diplomat |
26-Nov-1948 |
|
US Middle East Envoy, 1992-2000 |
| James M. Rosser |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
President, Cal State Los Angeles |
| Warren Rudman |
Politician |
18-May-1930 |
19-Nov-2012 |
US Senator from New Hampshire, 1980-93 |
| John Patrick Schmitz |
Government |
1955 |
|
Washington lobbyist |
| Cheryl L. Shavers |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Under Secy. Commerce for Technology, 1999-2001 |
| David Skaggs |
Politician |
22-Feb-1943 |
|
Congressman from Colorado, 1987-99 |
| James B. Steinberg |
Government |
7-May-1953 |
|
Deputy Secretary of State |
| Fritz Stern |
Historian |
2-Feb-1926 |
|
German historian |
| Maurice Strong |
Activist |
29-Apr-1929 |
28-Nov-2015 |
Power executive, environmentalist |
| Deborah Szekely |
Activist |
3-May-1922 |
|
Co-Founder, Golden Door Spa |
| Abigail Thernstrom |
Author |
1936 |
|
Opponent of Affirmative Action |
| Lionel Tiger |
Educator |
1937 |
|
The Decline of Males |
| Jack Valenti |
Business |
5-Sep-1921 |
26-Apr-2007 |
Presidential advisor, headed the MPAA |
| Paul Volcker |
Economist |
5-Sep-1927 |
|
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87 |
| George Vradenburg |
Attorney |
14-Mar-1943 |
|
Strategic Advisor for AOL Time Warner |
| Frederick Vreeland |
Diplomat |
24-Jun-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Morocco, 1992-93 |
| Peter S. Watson |
Government |
1953 |
|
CEO of OPIC, 2001-05 |
| Vin Weber |
Politician |
24-Jul-1952 |
|
Congressman from Minnesota, 1981-93 |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. |
Business |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92 |
| Frederick B. Whittemore |
Business |
c. 1931 |
|
Former Partner, Morgan Stanley |
| Ernest J. Wilson III |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Dean, Annenberg School for Communication |
| Herman Wouk |
Novelist |
27-May-1915 |
|
The Caine Mutiny |
| Charles W. Yost |
Diplomat |
6-Nov-1907 |
21-May-1981 |
US Ambassador to the UN, 1969-71 |
| Robert Zoellick |
Government |
25-Jul-1953 |
|
World Bank president, 2007-12 |
| Mort Zuckerman |
Business |
4-Jun-1937 |
|
Owner, New York Daily News |
