Trilateral Commission 2016 membership includes the folks who rule America behind the scenes

UPDATES:
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński, co-founder of Trilateral Commisssion, died May 27, 2017 at age 89.
David Rockefeller died March 20, 2017 – founder of Trilateral Commission – was 101 years old

New 2017 Trilateral Membership List

2020 Trilateral Membership List available


Bill Clinton was a member in 2005. So was George Soros, George H. W. Bush, Madeleine Albright, Tom Foley, Charles Rangel, Dick Gephardt, Richard Perle, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dianne Feinstein, Fareed Zakaria, David Gergen, Mort Zuckerman,  Robert McNamara and Lynne Cheney. Plus money experts like David Rockefeller of Chase Bank, Jaimie Dimon of J P Morgan, Martin Feldstein,  Larry Summers, John Thain and Paul Volcker.

epsteinThat 2005 roster even included a pervert, unmasked three years later – Jeffrey Edward Epstein, who worked at Bear Stearns early in his career and then formed his own firm. In 2008, Epstein was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, for which he served 13 months in prison.

The Trilateral team divides the world into three groups: North American (120 members), European (170) and Asia-Pacific (200). This year’s meetings were:

  • Asia Pacific Regional Meeting of the Trilateral Commission
    New Delhi, India, November 26-27, 2016
  • European Regional Meeting of the Trilateral Commission
    Lisbon, Portugal, November 11-13, 2016
  • North American Regional Meeting of the Trilateral Commission
    Mexico City, Mexico, September 9-10, 2016
  • Annual Meeting of the Trilateral Commission
    Rome, Italy, April 15 – 17, 2016

Following are the current North America Trilateral members (Canada, United States and Mexico), followed by the 2005 North American roster for comparison:

NORTH AMERICAN GROUP – August 2016

JOSEPH S. NYE, JR.D
North American Chairman

JAIME SERRA
North American Deputy Chairman

JOHN MANLEY
North American Deputy Chairman

DAVID ROCKEFELLER
Founder and Honorary Chairman

PAUL A. VOLCKER
North American
Honorary Chairman

MICHAEL J. O’NEIL
North American Director

*Executive Committee

Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group, Washington; former U.S Secretary of State

Bertrand-Marc Allen, President, Boeing International; Senior Vice President, Boeing Company, Arlington

Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense and former Assistant Secretary of Defense

Louise Arbour, Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais, Montréal; former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Dominic Barton, Worldwide Managing Director, McKinsey & Company, London

Alan R. Batkin, Chairman, Converse Associates, Inc.; former Vice Chairman, Eton Park Capital Management; former Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York

*C. Fred Bergsten, Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs and Assistant for International Economic Affairs for the National Security Council

*Catherine Bertini, Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University; Distinguished Fellow, Agricultural Development, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Adm. Dennis B. Blair (ret.), Chairman, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Washington; former U.S. Director of National Intelligence; former Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command

Herminio Blanco Mendoza, Chairman, IQOM, Mexico City; former Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development; former Chief NAFTA Negotiator

bloomberg-attack-safety-tipsMichael Bloomberg, Founder and CEO, Bloomberg LP, New York; former Mayor of New York City

Esther Brimmer, J.B. and Maurice Shapiro Professor of International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington

Gord Brown, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, Ottawa

Harold Brown, Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington; former General Partner, Warburg Pincus & Company; former U.S. Secretary of Defense

R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics and Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Kurt M. Campbell, Chairman and Chief Executive, The Asian Group, Washington; Member of the Board, Center for a New American Security; former Assistant U.S. Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Wendy J. Chamberlin, President, Middle East Institute, Washington; former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan

Jean Charest, Former Premier of Québec; former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Montréal

Michael Chertoff, Chairman and Co-Founder, The Chertoff Group, former Secretary of Homeland Security; Former Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Former Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Washington

Raymond Chrétien, Partner and Strategic Advisor, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Montreal, QC; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Montréal Council on Foreign Relations (MCFR); former Associate Under Secretary of State of External Affairs; former Ambassador to the Congo, Belgium, Mexico, the United States, and France

William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner and the Senior Counselor, O’Melveny & Myers, Washington; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation; Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission

Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge; former Chairman, National Intelligence Council; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic AffairsE. Gerald Corrigan, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & C, New York; former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

David M. Cote, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ

Heidi Crebo-Rediker, CEO, International Capital Strategies, Washington

Lee Cullum, Contributing Columnist, Dallas Morning News; Radio and Television Commentator, Dallas

Mitch Daniels, President, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Former Governor of Indiana

Luis de la Calle, Managing Director and Founding Partner, De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C. (CMM), Mexico City; former Undersecretary for International Trade Negotiations

Arthur A. DeFehr, Chief Executive Officer, Palliser Furniture, Winnipeg, MB

André Desmarais, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Power Corporation of Canada, Montréal; Deputy Chairman, Power Financial Corporation

John M. Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; former Director of Central Intelligence; former Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Undersecretary of Energy

Paula J. Dobriansky, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; Vice Chair, National Executive Committee, U.S. Water Partnership; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Wendy Dobson, Professor and Co-Director, Institute for International Business, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto; former Canadian Associate Deputy Minister of Finance

Gary Doer, former Canadian Ambassador to the United States, Winnipeg

Thomas Donilon, Partner and Vice Chair, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington; Non-resident Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; former U.S. National Security Advisor

time*Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Duberstein Group, Washington; former Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan Michael Duffy, Executive Editor, TIME Magazine, Washington

Douglas Elmendorf, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge

Clark K. Ervin, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs LLP, Washington; Director, Homeland Security Program, The Aspen Institute

Richard Falkenrath, Senior Manager, Bridgewater Associates, Westport

Diana Farrell, Chief Executive Officer and President, JPMorgan Chase Institute, Washington; former Deputy Director, National Economic Council, and Deputy Assistant on Economic Policy to President Obama

Martin S. Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge; President Emeritus, National Bureau of Economic Research; former Chairman, U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisors

Richard W. Fisher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas; former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative

Michèle Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Conslting Group,  Bethesda, MD; Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Julio Frenk, President, University of Miami

cnn*David R. Gergen, Professor of Public Service and Director of the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; CNN Senior Political Analyst

Gordon Giffin, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge, Atlanta; former U.S. Ambassador to Canada

Austan Goolsbee, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business; former Chairman, U.S. President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers

Jamie S. Gorelick, Partner, WilmerHale, Washington; former Deputy Attorney General; former General Counsel, Department of Defense

Bill Graham Chancellor, Trinity College, University of Toronto; former Member, House of Commons; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Defense, Ottawa

wapoDonald Graham, Chairman and CEO of Graham Holdings Company, former owner of The Washington Post Company, Washington

Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State; former Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

*John J. Hamre, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)

*Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington; former Member, U.S. House of Representatives

Linda Hasenfratz, President and CEO, Linamar Corporation, Ontario

Carlos Heredia, Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE),Mexico City; Coordinator, Program for the Study of the United States, CIDE

*Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, International Consultants, Washington; former U.S. Trade Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

*Karen Elliott House, Journalist, Princeton; Adjunct Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Chairman, Atlantic Council; Chairman, Atlantic Council International Advisory Board, Washington, Chairman of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, Washington, DC

David Ignatius, Columnist, The Washington Post, Washington

Merit E. Janow, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, and Professor of Practice, International Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia University; former Member, Appellate Body; World Trade Organization

Janis Johnson, Member of Senate of Canada, Ottawa

Kenneth I. Juster, Partner and Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, New York; former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security; former Counselor (Acting) of the U.S. Department of State

Lewis Kaden, Former Vice Chairman, Citigroup; Chairman, Markle Foundation Board of Directors, New York

Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

University, Cambridge; Former Columnist, Boston Globe

Robert P. (Bob) Kelly, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BNY Mellon, New York

Colin Kenny, Member, Senate of Canada, Ottawa; former Special Assistant, Director of Operations, and Assistant Principal Secretary to the Rt. Hon. P. E. Trudeau; Member, Special Senate Committee on Terrorism and Security and Special Joint Committee on Canadian Defence Policy

Robert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel, WilmerHale, Washington; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany

Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York; former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission

Fred Langhammer, Chairman, Global Affairs, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., New York

Hélène Laverdière, Bureau de la colline, Chambre des communes, Ottawa

*Monique Leroux, President, International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), Montréal

Marne Levine, Chief Operating Officer, Instagram, Menlo Park

Santiago Levy, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington

David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington

Andrew N. Liveris, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland

Winston Lord, Chairman Emeritus and former Co-Chairman of the Board, International Rescue Committee, New York; former President, Council on Foreign Relations; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to China

Linda Koch Lorimer, Senior Counselor to the President and Provost of Yale University, New Haven

*John Manley, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Business Council of Canada, Ottawa; former Counsel, McCarthy Tétrault LLP; former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

David H. McCormick, President, Bridgewater Associates, Westport; former Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Judith A. McHale, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cane Investments, LLC, Hastings on Hudson, NY; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; former President and Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Communications

Thomas F. McLarty, III, President, McLarty Asssociates, Washington; former Chief of Staff to President Clinton

Jami Miscik, President and Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York; former Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency

andreaAndrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News, Washington. Spouse of Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chair.

Adm. Michael Mullen (ret.), CEO, MGM Consulting, Annapolis; former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Heather Munroe-Blum, Chair of the Board, Canada Pension Investment Fund; Principal Emerita and Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Toronto

Lori Esposito Murray, Distinguished Chair for National Security, U.S. Naval Academy; former President & Chief Executive Officer, World Affairs Councils of America; former Special Advisor to the President on the Chemical Weapons Convention; former Assistant Director, U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency

John D. Negroponte, Vice Chair, McLarty Associates, Washington; former Deputy Secretary of State; former Director of National Intelligence; former Ambassador to the United Nations and former  Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines and Iraq

*Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former Chair, National Intelligence Council, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Peter R. Orszag, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, New York

*Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former Special Assistant to President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan

Thomas R. Pickering, Vice Chair, Hills & Company, Washington; former Under Secretary of State for  Political  Affairs;  former  U.S.  Ambassador  to  the  Russian  Federation,  India,  Israel,  El Salvador, Nigeria, Jordan, and the United Nations; former Senior Vice President, International Relations, the Boeing Company

*Adam S. Posen, President, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington

Dina Habib Powell, Head of Goldman Sachs Bank USA’s Urban Investment Group (UIG); Global Head, Office of Corporate Engagement, and President, Goldman Sachs Foundation, New York; former Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs

John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Professor in Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge

Seamus O’Reagan, Member of Parliament, St. John’s South Mount Pearl, Ottawa

Carmen Reinhart, Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington

John Risley, Chairman and President, Clearwater, Bedford

David Rockefeller, Founder, Honorary Chairman and Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission, New York

Cecilia Rouse,  Dean, Woodrow Willson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Andrés Rozental, former Mexican Deputy Foreign Minister; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Latin America Initiative, Brookings Institution, Mexico City

David M. Rubenstein, Co-founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, Washington

*Luis Rubio, President, Center for Research Development (CIDAC), Mexico City

Indira Samarasekera, Senior Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP, Vancouver

Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google, Mountain View, CA

Gerald Seib, Washington Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal, Washington

Jaime Serra, Chairman, SAI Law and Economics; Founder, Aklara, the Arbitration Center of Mexico, and the NAFTA Fund of Mexico, Mexico City; Deputy Chairman, North American Trilateral Commission

Rajiv Shah, Distinguished Fellow in Residence, Edward A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington; former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

Jeffrey Simpson, former National Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail, Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa, Ottawa

Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America Foundation, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State

Olympia Snowe, Former U.S. Senator; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center, Portland, Maine

Cecilia Soto Gonzalez, Federal Congresswoman, Mexico City

Nancy Southern, President and Chief Executive Officer, ATCO Ltd. and Canadian Utilities Limited, Calgary

James Stavridis, Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired), The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

*James B. Steinberg, Maxwell School, and University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs and Law, Syracuse University, Syracuse; former Deputy Secretary of State, former Deputy National Security Advisor

Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and former President, Harvard University, Cambridge; fomer Director, National Economic Council; former Secretary of the Treasury

Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution, Washington

Carole Taylor, Chancellor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; former Minister of Finance, British Columbia; former Chair, CBC/Radio-Canada; former Chair, Canada Ports; public affairs broadcaster

Luis Téllez Kuenzler, Special Advisor, KKR, President, NTT Everis; former Chairman of the Board, Mexican Stock Exchange, Mexico City; former Secretary of Communications and Transportation of Mexico

G. Richard Thoman, Managing Partner, Corporate Perspectives, New York; Adjunct Professor of International Business, Columbia University; Professor of Practice in International Business, the Fletcher School, Tufts University; former President and Chief Executive Officer, Xerox Corporation; former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, IBM Corporation

Ann M. Veneman, former Executive Director, UNICEF; former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; New York

Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Georgetown University, Washington

Guillermo F. Vogel, Director and Vice President of the Board, Tenaris, Mexico City

*Paul A. Volcker, former Chairman, President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board; former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York; Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus, International Economic Policy, Princeton University; former Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman and former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Michael H. Wilson, Chairman, Barclays Capital Canada, Inc., Toronto; former Ambassador of Canada to the United States; former Chairman, UBS Canada

John D. Wren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Omnicom Group, Inc., New York

Daniel H. Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS; Founder, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Cambridge

Robert Zoellick, Chairman, Goldman Sachs’ International Advisors, New York

Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report, and Publisher, New York Daily News, New York; Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer, Boston Properties Inc.

DAVID ROCKEFELLER FELLOWS

Javier Arryo, Chief Operations Officer, Farmacias Guadalajara

Matan Chorev, Chief of Staff, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Elbridge Colby, Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Washington

Gabriella Enrigue, Founder, Prospera, Mexico

Dionisio Garza Sada, Co-Founder, Grupo Topaz, Monterrey

Andrew Klaber, Investment Analyst, Paulson & Company

Jessica Ji Eun Lee, Director, Policy and Advocacy at the Council of Korean Americans

Julia Fan Li, Senior Vice-President & Head of UK Seven Bridges Genomics

Lisa Eakman Moon, President and Chief Executive Officer, Global FoodBanking Network, Chicago

Mira Rapp-Hooper, Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Loren DeJonge Schulman, Deputy Director of Studies and the Leon E. Panetta Senior Fellow Center for a New American Security

Jean-Francois Seguin, Senior Associate, Clifford Chance Law Firm, Riyadh Matthew Thomas, Founder and Managing Director, Prospect Madison, Toronto Samantha Vinograd, Vice President, Environmental Markets Group Goldman Sachs

Alex Wong, Foreign Policy Advisor & General Counsel to Senator Tom Cotton, Washington

Former Members in Public Service

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Washington

Ashton Carter, Secretary of Defense; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense; former Chair, International and Global Affairs faculty, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Stanley Fischer, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, New York

Kristin J. Forbes, Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England

Michael B. G. Froman, U.S. Trade Representative

Lourdes Melgar Palacios, Mexican Undersecretary of Electricity

Susan E. Rice, National Security Advisor to the President, The White House


2005 North American  List

Madeleine K. Albright, Principal, The Albright Group LLC, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of State

Graham Allison, Director, BelferCenter for Science and International Affairs, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, MA

Rona Ambrose, Member of Parliament, Ottawa, ON

G. Allen Andreas, Chairman and Chief Executive, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, IL

Michael H. Armacost, Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, Hillsborough, CA; former President, The Brookings Institution; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

C. Michael Armstrong, Chairman, Comcast Corporation, Philadelphia, PA

*Charlene Barshefsky, Senior International Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative

Alan R. Batkin, Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, New York, NY

Maurizio Bevilacqua, Member of Parliament, Ottawa, ON

Doug Bereuter, President, The Asia Foundation, San Francisco, CA; former Member, U.S. House of Representatives

*C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

Catherine Bertini, Under-Secretary-General for Management, United Nations, New York, NY

Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.), President, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA; former Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command

Herminio Blanco Mendoza, Private Office of Herminio Blanco, Mexico City, NL; former Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development

Geoffrey T. Boisi, former Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY

Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA; former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

David G. Bradley, Chairman, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, DC

Harold Brown, Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; General Partner, Warburg Pincus & Company, New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of Defense

*Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; Robert Osgood Professor of American Foreign Affairs, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

George H.W. Bush, Former President, The United States of America, Texas

Louis C. Camilleri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Altria Group, Inc., New York, NY

Gerhard Casper, President Emeritus, Stanford University, Stanford

Lynne V. Cheney, Former Chairman, the National Endowment for the Humanities, WashingtonD.C.

William Jefferson Clinton, Former President of the United States

William T. Coleman III, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Cassatt Corporation;

Founder, former Chairman and CEO and Member, Board of Directors, BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA

William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner and the Senior Counselor, O’Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ripplewood Holdings, New York, NY

E. Gerald Corrigan, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York, NY; former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Michael J. Critelli, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT

Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Politcial Science and Visiting Professor, Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo

Douglas Daft, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca Cola Company, Atlanta, GA

Dennis D. Dammerman, Vice Chairman and Executive Officer, General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT

Lynn Davis, Senior Political Scientist, The RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

Lodewijk J. R. de Vink, Chairman, Global Health Care Partners, Peapack, NJ; former Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Warner-Lambert Company

Arthur A. DeFehr, President and Chief Executive Officer, Palliser Furniture, Winnipeg, MB

André Desmarais, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Power Corporation of Canada, Montréal, QC; Deputy Chairman, Power Financial Corporation

Jamie Dimon, President and Chief Operating Officer, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY

Peter C. Dobell, Founding Director, Parliamentary Centre, Ottawa, ON

Wendy K. Dobson, Professor and Director, Institute for International Business, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; former Canadian Associate Deputy Minister of Finance

Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Duberstein Group, Washington, DC

Robert Eckert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA

Jessica P. Einhorn, Dean, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC; former Managing Director for Finance and Resource Mobilization, World Bank

Jeffrey Epstein, President, J. Epstein & Company, Inc., New York, NY; President, N.A. Property, Inc.

Dianne Feinstein, Member (D-CA), U.S. Senate

Sandra Feldman, President Emeritus, American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC

Martin S. Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Economic Research; former U.S.Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisors

Stanley Fischer, President, Citigroup International and Vice Chairman, Citgroup, New York, NY; former First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC

Richard W. Fisher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX; former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative

*Thomas S. Foley, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Washington, DC; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor International Political Economy, PaulH.NitzeSchool of Advanced International Studies, The JohnsHopkinsUniversity, Washington, DC

Dionisio Garza Medina, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, ALFA, Garza Garcia, NL

Richard A. Gephardt, former Member (D-MO), U.S. House of Representatives

David Gergen, Professor of Public Service, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Editor-at-Large, U.S. News and World Report

Peter C. Godsoe, Chairman of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts; Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Scotiabank, Toronto, ON

*Allan E. Gotlieb, Senior Advisor, Stikeman Elliott, Toronto, ON; Chairman, Sotheby’s, Canada; former Canadian Ambassador to the United States; North American Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Donald E. Graham, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Washington Post Company, Washington, DC

Jeffrey W. Greenberg, Private Investor, New York, NY; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Marsh & McLennan Companies

Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman, American International Group, Inc., New York, NY

Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State; former Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

William A. Haseltine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Haseltine Associates, Washington, DC;

President, William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, MD

Charles B. Heck, Senior Adviser and former North American Director, Trilateral Commission, New Canaan, CT

*Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, International Consultants, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Richard Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, New York, NY; Counselor, Council on Foreign Relations; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; former Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany

Karen Elliott House, Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY

James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, Washington, DC; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

Alejandro Junco de la Vega, President and Director, Grupo Reforma, Monterrery, NL

Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC

Charles R. Kaye, Co-President, Warburg Pincus LLC, New York, NY

Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Michael Klein, Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking, Citigroup Inc.; Vice Chairman, Citibank International PLC; New York, NY

Enrique Krauze, General Director, Editorial Clio Libros y Videos, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, DF

Jim Leach, Member (R-IA), U.S. House of Representatives

Gerald M. Levin, Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, AOL Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY

Winston Lord, Co-Chairman of Overseeers and former Co-Chairman of the Board, International Rescue Committee, New York, NY; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to China

E. Peter Lougheed, Senior Partner, Bennett Jones, Barristers & Solicitors, Calgary, AB; former Premier of Alberta

Roy MacLaren, former Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; former Canadian Minister of International Trade; Toronto, ON

John A. MacNaughton, former President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Toronto, ON

Antonio Madero, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, San Luis Corporacion, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, DF

*Sir Deryck C. Maughan, former Vice Chairman, Citigroup, New York, NY

Jay Mazur, President Emeritus, UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees); Vice Chairman, Amalgamated Bank of New York; and President, ILGWU’s 21st Century Heritage Foundation, New York, NY

Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Chairman, McColl Brothers Lockwood, Charlotte, NC; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America Corporation

Henry A. McKinnell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY

Marc H. Morial, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Urban League, New York, NY; former Mayor, New Orleans, LA

Anne M. Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT

Brian Mulroney, Senior Partner, Ogilvy Renault, Barristers and Solicitors, Montréal, QC; former Prime Minister of Canada

*Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

David J. O’Reilly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ChevronTexaco Corp., San Ramon, CA

Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC; member and former Chairman, Defense Policy Board, U.S. Department of Defense; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy

Thomas R. Pickering, Senior Vice President, International Relations, The Boeing Company, Vienna, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the United Nations

Franklin D. Raines, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association), Washington, DC; former Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Office of the President

Joseph W. Ralston, USAF (Ret)., Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group, Washington, DC; former Commander, U.S. European Command, and Supreme Allied Commander NATO; former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Department of Defense

Charles B. Rangel, Member (D-NY), U.S. House of Representatives

Hartley Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer, James Richardson & Sons, Ltd., Winnipeg, MB

Joseph E. Robert, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Office, J.E. Robert Companies, McLean, VA

John D. Rockefeller IV, Member (D-WV), U.S. Senate

Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Chief Economist and Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC

David M. Rubenstein, Co-founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, Washington, DC

Luis Rubio, President, Center of Research for Development (CIDAC), Mexico City, DF

Arthur F. Ryan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ

Jaime Serra, Chairman, SAI Consulting, Mexico City, DF; former Mexican Minister of Trade and Industry

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow WilsonSchool of Public and International Affairs, PrincetonUniversity, Princeton, NJ

Gordon Smith, Director, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC; Chairman, Board of Governors, International Development Research Centre; former Canadian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister to the Economic Summit

Donald R. Sobey, Chairman Emeritus, Empire Company Ltd., Stellarton, NS

George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management LLC, New York, NY; Chairman, The Open Society Institute

Ronald D. Southern, Chairman, ATCO Group, Calgary, AB

James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor

Barbara Stymiest, Chief Operating Officer, RBC Financial Group, Toronto, ON

Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC

Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

Luis Tellez, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, Mexico City, DF; former Executive Vice President, Sociedad de Fomento Industrial (DESC); former Mexican Minister of Energy

John Thain, Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange, Inc.; former President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, NY

G. Richard Thoman, Managing Partner, Corporate Perspectives and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY; formerly President and CEO, Xerox Corporation; formerly CFO and Nº 2 officer, IBM Corporation

*Paul A. Volcker, former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York; Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus, International Economic Policy, Princeton University; former Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman and former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission

William H. Webster, Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Washington, DC; former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence; former Director, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation; former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International, New York, NY

*Lorenzo H. Zambrano, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, CEMEX, Monterrey, NL; North American Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University, New Haven, CT; former President of Mexico

Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report, New York, NY

Robert S. McNamara, Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission, Washington, DC; former President, World Bank; former U.S. Secretary of Defense; former President, Ford Motor Company

David Rockefeller, Founder, Honorary Chairman, and Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission, New York, NY

Former Members In Public Service

Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States

Paula J. Dobriansky, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Bill Graham, Canadian Minister of National Defence

William J. McDonough, Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

European, Asian, North American T.C. 2016 Members

16 thoughts on “Trilateral Commission 2016 membership includes the folks who rule America behind the scenes

    1. Where is a scientist or engineer among them, with intelligence and common sense. It is full of floaters and rip-off artists, including George Sarosh (see its Hungarian meaning) who sold his Jewish compatriots in Budapest in 1944 to the Nazis, to be taken to the gas chambers..

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