There are two types of Council on Foreign Relations membership: life, and term membership, which lasts for five years and is available to those between the ages of 30 and 36 at the time of their application. Only U.S. citizens (native born or naturalized) and permanent residents who have applied for U.S. citizenship are eligible. A candidate for life membership must be nominated in writing by one Council member and seconded by a minimum of three others (strongly encouraged to be other CFR members).^[1]

Corporate membership (250 in total) is divided into three levels: “Founders” ($100,000), “President’s Circle” ($60,000), and “Affiliates” ($30,000). All corporate executive members have opportunities to hear distinguished speakers, such as overseas presidents and prime ministers, chairmen and CEOs of multinational corporations, and US officials and Congressmen. President’s Circle and Founders are also entitled to other benefits, including attendance at small, private dinners or receptions with senior American officials and world leaders.^[2]

The Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations is composed in total of thirty-six officers. Peter G. Peterson and David Rockefeller are Directors Emeriti (Chairman Emeritus and Honorary Chairman, respectively). It also has an International Advisory Board consisting of thirty-five distinguished individuals from across the world.^[3][4]

CFR has several levels of corporate membership: founders, premium members and associates. As of 7 June 2013 members were:^[5]

• Roger Ailes (former Chairman and CEO of Fox News)
• Madeleine Albright (64th United States Secretary of State, 20th United States Ambassador to the United Nations under Bill Clinton)^[6]
• Lamar Alexander (45th Governor of Tennessee, United States Republican Senator, 5th United States Secretary of Education under George H.W. Bush)
• Eliot Abrams (international lawyer, former state department official under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush)^[6]
• Morton I. Abramowitz (diplomat)
• John Abizaid (U.S Army General, former head of CENTCOM)^[6]
• Michael F. Adams (President of University of Georgia)^[6]
• John B. Anderson (former Republican/Independent congressman from Illinois)
• Anthony Clark Arend (international lawyer, and academic)^[6]
• Fouad Ajami (academic, middle east analyst)
• Bruce Babbitt {16th Governor of Arizona, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior under Clinton}
• Howard Baker (13th Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate, 12th White House Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan, husband of Nancy Kassebaum Baker)
• James Baker (61st Secretary of State of the United States under Bush-41, and 67th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States under Ronald Reagan, 10th & 16th White House chief of staff to President’s Reagan and George H.W. Bush)^[6]
• Thurbert Baker (former Democratic Party attorney-general of the state of Georgia)^[6]
• Michael D. Barnes (former United States Democratic congressman from Maryland, and president of the Brady Campaign)^[6]
• Kara Medoff Barnett (Executive Director of American Ballet Theatre, former Director of Lincoln Center)^[6]
• Charlene Barshefsky (former United States Trade Representative)^[6]
• Evan Bayh (former Democratic U.S senator and 46th Governor from Indiana)^[6]
• Peter Bergen (journalist, national security analyst for CNN)^[6]
• Nicolas Berggruen (founder, Berggruen Institute)^[6]
• Joe Biden (47th Vice-President of the United States)
• Josh Bolten (22nd White House chief-of-staff under George W. Bush)
• Rudy Boschwitz (former Republican United States Senator from Minnesota)^[6]
• Sandy Berger (19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton)
• Warren Beatty (actor, film producer, director)^[6]
• Peter Beinart (academic, columnist)
• Howard Berman (former Democratic Party United States Congressman from California)^[6]
• Jeffrey Bewkes (president of Time Warner)^[6]
• Stephen Biddle (theorist setting U.S. counter-insurgency policy)
• Sanford Bishop (Democratic Party United States congressman from Georgia)
• Michael R. Bloomberg (108th Mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg L.P.)^[6]
• Max Boot (military historian, and foreign policy expert)
• David Boren (former Democratic U.S. senator from Oklahoma and president of the University of Oklahoma)^[6]
• Bill Bradley (former Democratic senator from New Jersey, NBA hall of fame basketball player)^[6]
• Lael Brainard (Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, wife of Kurt M. Campbell)^[6]
• Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Group)
• L. Paul Bremer (diplomat)^[6]
• Ian Bremmer (Eurasia Group founder and president)^[6]
• Stephen Gerald Breyer (United States Supreme Court justice)^[6]
• Bill Brock (50th chairman of the Republican Party, 8th U.S. trade ambassador and 18th United States Secretary of Labor under Ronald Reagan, former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee)
• Dan Burton (former republican party United States congressman from Indiana)
• Erin Burnett (journalist, CNN anchor)
• George H.W. Bush (41st President of the United States)
• Tom Brokaw (NBC journalist)^[6]
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (a member of the Bronfman dynasty, president of the World Jewish Congress)
• Ethan Bronner (deputy foreign editor of The New York Times)^[6]
• Zbigniew Brzezinski (10th United States National Security Advisor under President Jimmy Carter)
• Jonathan S. Bush (healthcare CEO, son of Jonathan Bush, brother of NBC entertainment reporter Billy Bush)
• Craig Calhoun (President of Berggruen Institute, Director of the London School of Economics)^[6]
• Kurt M. Campbell {Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, husband of Lael Brainard}^[6]
• Frank Carlucci (16th Secretary of Defense and 15th U.S. national security adviser under Ronald Reagan, 13th deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Jimmy Carter)^[6]
• Jimmy Carter (39th President of the United States)^[6]
• Carey Cavanaugh (diplomat and professor)^[6]
• Juju Chang (journalist, reporter for ABC News)^[6]
• Dick Cheney (46th Vice-President of the United States)^[6]
• Henry Cisneros (10th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bill Clinton)
• Bill Clinton (42nd President of the United States)^[6]
• Hillary Clinton (former First Lady of the United States, former United States Senator from New York, 67th United States Secretary of State under Barack Obama)
• George Clooney (actor, director, screenwriter, producer, United Nations Messenger of Peace)^[6]
• Stephen F. Cohen (professor of Russian studies at NYU, husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel)^[6]
• Katie Couric (former CBS and NBC journalist, talk show host)^[6]
• Edward F. Cox (international attorney, chairman of the New York Republican party, son-in-law of Richard Nixon)^[6]
• Michael Crow (president of Arizona State University)^[6]
• Mario Cuomo (Democratic politician, 52nd Governor of New York)
• William M. Daley (24th White House chief of staff under Obama, 32nd secretary of commerce under Bill Clinton)
• Kathryn Wasserman Davis {American philanthropist}
• Kenneth Duberstein (13th chief of staff under Ronald Reagan)
• Peggy Dulany (fourth child of David Rockefeller)
• Joseph Duffey (academic, educator)
• Chris Dodd (Former United States Senator from Connecticut)
• Thomas R. Donahue {former Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO}
• William H. Donaldson (former chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission)
• Michael Dukakis (65th and 67th governor of Massachusetts, 1988 Democratic Party nominee for the Presidency)
• Mervyn M. Dymally (former Democratic congressman from California)
• James S. Doyle (journalist & activist)
• Jesse Dylan (film director)
• Esther Dyson (philanthropist, technology analyst, daughter of Freeman Dyson)
• John Edwards (former Democratic U.S. senator from North Carolina, 2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee)
• Karl Eikenberry (United States Army General, former ambassador to Afghanistan)
• Ari Emanuel (head of Endeavor Agency)
• Luigi R. Einaudi {former secretary-general of the Organization of American States}
• Mallory Factor {academic, banker, conservative activist,}
• Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Noah Feldman (academic and author)
• Dianne Feinstein (United States Democratic Party Senator from California)
• Bernard T. Ferrari (dean, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School)
• John B. Fitzgibbons, an American businessman and philanthropist
• Donald M. Fraser (former Democratic United States congressman from Minnesota)
• Bill Frist (Republican politician, former United States Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate)
• Mikhail Fridman (Russian oligarch, International Advisory Board member)
• Thomas Friedman (columnist for The New York Times)
• Martin Feldstein (economist, Harvard professor)
• Tom Foley (57th speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
• Francis Fukuyama (political scientist, for state department official)
• Pamela Gann (President of Claremont McKenna College, former dean of Duke University School of Law).
• Robert M. Gates (22nd United States Secretary of Defense under Bush & Obama, 15th Director of Central Intelligence under George H.W. Bush)
• Robert P. George (Academic, professor at Princeton University, theologian, philosopher)
• David Geffen (president of Universal Music Group)
• Leslie Gelb (former journalist for the New York Times)
• Dick Gephardt (22nd Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives)
• Sam Gejdenson (former Democratic Party United States Congressman from Connecticut)
• Jim Gilmore (68th Governor of Virginia)
• Bianna Golodryga (Journalist)
• Alan Greenspan (13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Maurice R. Greenberg (former chairman and CEO of AIG)
• Bob Graham (Democratic Party 38th governor of Florida and United States Senator)
• Janet G. Mullins Grissom (Republican lobbyist, former state department official)
• Timothy Geithner {75th secretary of the treasury under Obama, 9th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York}
• David Gergen (advisor to Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, commentator for CNN)
• Peter C. Goldmark, Jr. (former CEO of New York Port Authority, president of Rockefeller Foundation, publisher of International Herald Tribune)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (former President of the USSR)
• Roy M. Goodman (former Republican member of the New York State Senate)
• Porter Goss {former Republican congressman from Florida, 19th Director of Central Intelligence Agency under George W. Bush}
• Newt Gingrich (58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (United States Supreme Court justice)
• Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
• Richard N. Haass (former State Department official)
• David A. Harris (director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC))
• Lee H. Hamilton (former United States Democratic congressman from Indiana)
• Michael Hayden (United States Air Force general, 15th director of the National Security Agency under Bill Clinton, and 20th director of the CIA under George W. Bush)
• Gary Hart (former Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado, Council for a Livable World chairman, advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America)
• Heather Higgins (women’s advocate, chairman of the Independent Women’s Forum, president of the Randolph Foundation)
• Chris Heinz (heir to the H. J. Heinz Company ketchup fortune)
• Leo Hindery {businessman, philanthropist}
• Carla Anderson Hills (5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Gerald Ford, 10th United States Trade Representative to George H.W. Bush)
• Deane R. Hinton {former diplomat}
• Kim Holmes (foreign policy and defense expert)
• Douglas Holtz-Eakin (economist)
• Auren Hoffman (investor/entrepreneur)
• Warren Hoge (American journalist, formerly of the New York Times)
• Malcolm Hoenlein (vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations)
• Katrina vanden Heuvel (editor of The Nation, wife of Stephen F. Cohen, daughter of William vanden Heuvel)
• William vanden Heuvel (diplomat and international lawyer, father of Katrina vanden Heuvell)
• Frederick Iseman (businessman, inventor)
• Angelina Jolie (actress, UN Goodwill Ambassador)^[7]
• Vernon Jordan (advisor to President Bill Clinton)
• Nancy Johnson (former Republican United States congresswoman from Connecticut)
• Woody Johnson (investor, owner of the New York Jets, heir to Johnson & Johnson)
• Sheila Johnson (businesswoman, president of the Washington Mystics)
• Walter H. Kansteiner, III (American diplomat)
• Peter J. Katzenstein (political scientist, academic)
• Robert Kagan (cofounded Project for the New American Century)
• Nancy Kassebaum (former Republican Senator from Kansas, daughter of Alf Landon, and wife of Howard Baker)
• Thomas Kean, Sr. (Republican politician, 48th Governor of New Jersey)
• John Kerry(former United States Senator from Massachusetts, 68th United States Secretary of State under Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic Party nominee for the Presidency)
• Vanessa Kerry (doctor of medicine, liberal activist, daughter of John Kerry)
• Raymond Kelly {former police commissioner of the NYPD}
• Henry Kissinger (8th National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon and 56th United States Secretary of State under President’s Nixon and Ford)
• Joe Klein (Time Magazine columnist)
• Richard Kogan (former CEO of Schering-Plough from 1996 to 2003, board member of Colgate-Palmolive and The Bank of New York Mellon)
• Paul R. Krugman (economist, columnist for the New York Times)
• Anil Kumar (businessman, former senior partner at McKinsey)
• Charles Krauthammer (columnist for the Washington Post and political commentator at Fox News)
• Zalmay Khalilzad (26th ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush)
• Philip Lader (diplomat, chairman of WPP Group)
• Richard W. Lariviere (Scholar, President of the University of Oregon)
• Jim Leach (former Republican United States congressman from Iowa, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Obama)
• John Robert Lewis (Democratic United States congressman from the state of Georgia, famed civil-rights leader)
• Jim Lehrer (journalist, former anchor for PBS)
• Joe Lieberman (former United States Independent Senator from Connecticut)
• Lewis Libby (attorney, former chief-of-staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney)
• Herbert London {academic, conservative activist, former dean of Gallatin School of Individualized Study}
• Nigel Lythgoe (television producer)
• Fred Malek (businessman, former President of Marriott Hotels and Northwest Airlines)
• David Malpass (economist, Republican Party politician)
• John McCain (United States Republican Senator from Arizona, 2008 Republican Party nominee for the Presidency)
• Bud McFarlane (13th national security advisor to Ronald Reagan)
• William Green Miller (United States Ambassador to Ukraine under Bill Clinton)
• George J. Mitchell (17th Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate}
• Walter Mondale (42nd Vice-President of the United States)
• Robert Mosbacher, Jr. (businessman, son of Robert Mosbacher)
• Les Moonves (President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS)
• Bill Moyers (former press-secretary to Lyndon Johnson, public commentator for PBS)
• Langhorne A. Motley {former diplomat} and state department official}
• David Mulford (former United States Ambassador to India and current Vice-Chairman International of Credit Suisse)
• Rupert Murdoch (founder/chairman/CEO of News Corp and Fox News)
• Heather Nauert (journalist and anchor for Fox News)
• Janet Napolitano (3rd United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, 21st Governor of Arizona)
• John D. Negroponte (former United States Deputy Secretary of State and former Director of National Intelligence under George W. Bush)
• Joseph Nye (academic)
• Sandra Day O’Connor (former United States Supreme Court justice)
• Stan O’Neal (former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch)
• Robert Pastor (national security adviser, son-in-law to Robert McNamara)
• George Pataki (Republican politician, 53rd Governor of New York)
• Henry Paulson (74th United States Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush)
• Christina H. Paxson (19th President, Brown University)
• David Petraeus (United States Army General, former head of CENTCOM, 22nd director of the CIA)
• Peter G. Peterson (20th United States Secretary of Commerce under Nixon)
• Steve Pieczenik (former state department official, 911 conspiracy theorist)
• Kitty Pilgrim (journalist and anchor on CNN)
• Richard Pipes (academic, father of founder/director of Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes)
• Daniel Pipes (academic, writer, historian, son of Richard Pipes)
• Norman Podhoretz (former editor-in-chief of “Commentary“, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Project for the New American Century (PNAC) signatory)
• Steve Poizner (California businessman and Republican politician)
• Roman Popadiuk (former United States Ambassador to Ukraine, Executive Director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation)
• Arturo C. Porzecanski (Wall Street economist and university professor)
• Colin Powell (65th United States Secretary of State under Bush-43, 16th National Security Advisor under Reagan, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Bush-41)
• Tom Petri (Republican United States congressman from Wisconsin)
• Priscilla Presley (actress and former chairwoman of the board of Elvis Presley Enterprises)
• Charles Prince (former chief executive officer of Citigroup)
• Jennifer Raab {President of Hunter College}
• Janet Reno (78th United States Attorney General under Clinton)
• Condoleezza Rice (66th United States Secretary of State under Bush-43)
• Dan Rather (journalist, formerly anchor at CBS)
• Charles Rangel (United States Democratic Congressman from New York City)
• Alice Rivlin (economist, former U.S. cabinet member)
• David Rockefeller, Jr.
• John D. Rockefeller, IV (United States Democratic Party Senator of West Virginia, 29th Governor of West Virginia)
• Charlie Rose (PBS journalist and The Early Show anchor)
• Liz Rosenberg (novelist, poet, columnist for The Boston Globe)
• Chuck Robb (64th Governor of Virginia, former Democratic Party U.S. Senator from Virginia, son-in-law of Lyndon B. Johnson)
• Edward Regan (former state comptroller of New york)
• Robert Rubin (70th Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton)
• Haim Saban (founder of Saban Capital Group)
• Jeffrey D. Sachs (American economist)
• Diane Sawyer (ABC News journalist)
• Stephen M. Schwebel (jurist, former judge on the International Court of Justice)
• Michael Shifter (academic, president of the Inter-American Dialogue)
• Dan Senor (former foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush, former Fox News foreign policy analyst)
• Amity Shlaes (Bloomberg News columnist, and historian)
• Timothy Shriver (chairman & CEO of the Special Olympics)
• Nancy Soderberg (former United Nations Ambassador)
• David Stern (commissioner of the NBA)
• John Spratt (former Democratic United States congressman from South Carolina)
• Karenna Gore Schiff (daughter of Al Gore)
• Olympia J. Snowe (former Republican United States Senator from Maine)
• Brent Scowcroft (9th & 17th United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush)
• George Shultz (60th United States Secretary of State under Reagan, 62nd United States Secretary of the Treasury and 11th United States Secretary of Labor under Richard Nixon}
• Frederick W. Smith (CEO and founder of FedEx)
• Andrew Ross Sorkin (business journalist for New York Times and CNBC)
• Walter B. Slocombe (former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)
• George Soros (currency speculator, investor, businessman)
• Lesley Stahl (CBS News journalist)
• Donna Shalala (18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bill Clinton, President of the University of Miami)
• Eduard Shevardnadze (2nd President of Georgia)
• Eric Shinseki (7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs under Obama, 34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army under Clinton & Bush)
• Adlai Stevenson III (former Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, son of Adlai Stevenson II)
• George Stephanopoulos (former White House press-secretary under Bill Clinton, Good Morning America anchor, This Week with George Stephanopoulos host)
• Laurence H. Silberman (United States federal judge)
• Robert Silvers (editor of New York Review of Books)
• Stansfield Turner (United States Navy Admiral, 12th director of the CIA under Jimmy Carter)
• Doug Turner (Republican party operative/Politician, public relations operative)
• Richard Thornburgh (76th Attorney-General of the United States of America under Reagan & Bush, 76th Governor of Pennsylvania)
• John L. Thornton (chairman of Brookings Institution, academic, former president of Goldman Sachs}
• Frances Townsend {former United States Homeland Security Advisor}
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Former Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, member of the Kennedy family)
• Tom Vilsack (30th United States Secretary of Agriculture under Obama, 40th Governor of Iowa)
• Paul Volcker (12th Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Peter J. Wallison (20th White House Counsel to Ronald Reagan, former lawyer to Nelson Rockefeller)
• Barbara Walters (ABC News journalist)
• Vin Weber (former United States Republican Congressman from Minnesota)
• Steven Weinberg (American physicist)
• Juleanna Glover {American public policy consultant; former lobbyist}
• Christine Todd Whitman (50th Governor of New Jersey, 9th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under George W. Bush)
• Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (British member of parliament, International Advisory Board member)
• Richard S. Williamson (diplomat, lawyer, former chairman of the Republican Party of Illinois)
• James D. Wolfensohn (former president of the World Bank)
• Paul Wolfowitz (10th President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Bush-43)
• James Woolsey (16th Director of Central Intelligence under Bill Clinton)
• Dov S. Zakheim (academic and Department of Defense official under Reagan and George W. Bush)
• Paula Zahn (journalist, former anchor at Fox News and CNN)
• James Zogby (academic, political commentator and pollster)
• Robert Zoellick (11th President of the World Bank)

Current Emeritus and Honorary Officers and DirectorsEdit

• Leslie H. Gelb (President Emeritus)
• Maurice R. Greenberg (Honorary Vice Chairman)
• Peter G. Peterson (Chairman Emeritus)
• David Rockefeller (Honorary Chairman)

Notable historical membersEdit

• Herbert Agar (writer, editor of The Courier-Journal)
• Harold Agnew (physicist, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Umberto Agnelli (Italian industrialist, ceo of Fiat)
• Les Aspin {Democratic Party congressman from Wisconsin, 18th United States Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton}
• Kenneth Bacon (American journalist)
• Conrad Black (International Advisory Board member)
• Tom Braden (former CIA agent and liberal journalist)
• George Wildman Ball (American diplomat)
• Spruille Braden (American diplomat, businessman)
• McGeorge Bundy (National Security advisor for Presidents John F. Kennedy & Lyndon B. Johnson)
• William Bundy (Central Intelligence Agency agent, historian)
• William F. Buckley, Jr (commentator, publisher, founder of the National Review)
• Jonathan Bingham (Democratic congressman from New York, diplomat)
• Paul Cravath (lawyer, one of the founders of the Council on Foreign Relations)
• Monica Crowley (former Richard Nixon aide, radio host, and columnist)
• Heidi Cruz (former director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department and spouse of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz)
• John Chafee (former Secretary of the Navy, and Republican senator from Rhode Island)
• Warren Christopher (former United States Secretary of State)
• Thomas E. Dewey (47th governor of New York, former Republican nominee for President in 1944 and 1948)
• Michael Raoul Duval (attorney for Richard Nixon & Gerald Ford)
• C. Douglas Dillon (57th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States under John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson, under-secretary of state under Dwight D. Eisenhower)
• Allen Dulles (former Director of the CIA)
• John Foster Dulles (52nd Secretary of State of the United States under Ike Eisenhower)
• Fred Dutton {lawyer, lobbyist, Democratic Party operative}
• Paul A. Dyster {mayor of Niagara Falls, New York}
• Lawrence Eagleburger (former United States Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush)
• Jeffrey E. Epstein (financier)^[8]
• Rowland Evans (journalist)
• John Exter (economist)
• Gerald Ford (38th President of the United States of America)
• Geraldine Ferraro (former Democratic New York congresswoman, first woman on a major party presidential ticket in 1984)
• Alexander Haig (United States Army General, 59th Secretary of State of the United States under Ronald Reagan)
• Sidney Harman (businessman, owner of Newsweek)
• Armand Hammer (businessman, investor)
• W. Averell Harriman (48th Governor of New York, diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce under Harry S Truman)
• H. John Heinz III (former Republican United States Senator from Pennsylvania)
• Richard Holbrooke (diplomat, investment banker, 22nd United States UN Ambassador)
• Herbert Hoover (31st President of the United States)
• Henry Hyde (former Republican congressman from Illinois)
• Sergei Karaganov (International Advisory Board member)
• Irving Kristol (journalist, writer, dubbed “The godfather of neoconservatism, father of Bill Kristol)
• Jack Kemp (Hall of Fame quarterback, Republican congressman from New York, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bush-41, 1996 Republican Vice-Presidential nominee)
• George Kennan (diplomat, historian)
• Jeane Kirkpatrick (diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations)
• Ivy Lee (founding father of public relations)
• Robert A. Lovett (4th Secretary of Defense of the United States under Truman)
• Robert Matsui (former Democratic Party congressman from California)
• John J. McCloy (lawyer, banker)
• Charles Peter McColough (businessman)
• George McGovern (former Democratic senator from South Dakota, 1972 Democratic Party nominee for President)
• Robert McNamara (8th Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 5th President of the World Bank)
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (diplomat, former Democratic Senator from New York)
• Edmund Muskie (58th Secretary of State of the United States)
• Richard M. Nixon (37th President of the United States)
• Paul Nitze (Secretary of the Navy under Lyndon Johnson)
• David Rockefeller
• Nelson Rockefeller (41st Vice-President of the United States, and Governor of New York)
• John D. Rockefeller 3rd
• Felix Rohatyn (investment banker)
• Mark B. Rosenberg (President of Florida International University)
• Eugene Rostow (former dean of Yale law, legal scholar)
• Walt Rostow (7th National Security advisor to Lyndon Johnson)
• Dean Rusk (54th Secretary of State of the United States under Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson)
• Abraham A. Ribicoff (former Democratic United States Senator from Connecticut)
• William V. Roth, Jr. (former Republican United States Senator of Delaware).
• Carl Sagan (American scientist)
• Arthur Schlesinger (historian, academic)
• Raymond P. Shafer (former Republican governor of Pennsylvania)
• Tony Snow (former press secretary to George W. Bush, journalist, radio talk-show host)
• Ron Silver (actor, director, producer, co-founded One Jerusalem)
• Strobe Talbott (diplomat, chairman of Brookings Institution, journalist)
• Shirley Temple (actress, United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia)
• Sanford J. Ungar (president emeritus of Goucher College)
• Cyrus Vance (57th Secretary of State of the United States under Jimmy Carter)
• Vernon A. Walters (United States Army General, 17th U.S. ambassador of the U.N.)
• Paul Warburg (banker)
• Rick Warren (American Christian leader, Senior Pastor of the Saddleback Church)
• Caspar Weinberger (15th Secretary of Defense for the United States under Ronald Reagan)
• John Wheeler III (Vietnam veteran, military consultant, presidential aide; found murdered on Dec. 31, 2010)
• John C. Whitehead (9th United States Deputy Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, former Goldman Sachs chairman)
• Albert Wohlstetter
• Roberta Wohlstetter

List of ChairmenEdit

• Russell Cornell Leffingwell 1946–53
• John J. McCloy 1953–70
• David Rockefeller 1970–85
• Peter G. Peterson 1985–2007
• Carla A. Hills (co-chairman) 2007–
• Robert E. Rubin (co-chairman) 2007–

List of presidentsEdit

• John W. Davis 1921–33
• George W. Wickersham 1933–36
• Norman H. Davis 1936–44
• Russell Cornell Leffingwell 1944–46
• Allen Welsh Dulles 1946–50
• Henry Merritt Wriston 1951–64
• Grayson L. Kirk 1964–71
• Bayless Manning 1971–77
• Winston Lord 1977–85
• John Temple Swing 1985–86 (Pro tempore)
• Peter Tarnoff 1986–93
• Alton Frye 1993
• Leslie Gelb 1993–2003
• Richard N. Haass 2003–

Source: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996: Historical Roster of Directors and Officers^[9]