Aspen Institute Board of Trustees / CFR Members
Notes:
On the board of Aspen Institute is Nina R. Houghton, chairman of the Wye Institute.
On the Aspen History page, Arthur Houghton Jr. [Nina's father?] is mentioned as donating land on Wye River.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/about/about_history.htmlc
Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. shows up on the CFR and Trilateral Commission lists.
[In 1950], [Walter] Paepcke created what is now the Aspen Institute. He was a trustee of the University of Chicago...
In 1979, Corning Glass industrialist and philanthropist Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. donated to the Aspen Institute a thousand-acre parcel on the Wye River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
The location now hosts the Aspen Wye River Conference Center.
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Board of Trustees
Officers of the Board
Charles B. Knapp
President and CEO
The Aspen Institute
Ann McLaughlin
Former US Secretary of Labor
Chairman of the Board
Henry E. Catto [CFR]
Professor and Former Director, USIA
Vice Chairman
Lester Crown
Chairman
Material Service Corporation
Vice Chairman
John P. Mascotte
Retired Chairman and CEO
The Continental Corporation
Vice Chairman
Cynthia N. Buniski
Senior Vice President, Administration and Finance
Corporate Secretary and Treasurer
The Aspen Institute
Members of the Board
Mervyn L. Adelson
Chairman
East-West Capital Associates
Giuliano Amato
President
Antitrust Authority
Daniel P. Amos
President and CEO
AFLAC Incorporated
Paul F. Anderson [CFR]
Senior Vice President
Booz*Allen & Hamilton Inc.
Prince Bandar Bin Sultan
Ambassador to the United States
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Raymond Barre [CFR]
Chairman
Institut Aspen France
Berl Bernhard
Chairman
Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand
James C. Calaway
Stephen L. Carter
Professor of Law
Yale University Law School
Michael Chowdry
Chairman, President and CEO
Atlas Air, Inc.
F. Peter Cundill
President
Peter Cundill & Associates (Bermuda) Ltd.
William L. Davis
The Davis Group
Al Deitsch
Anthony G. Fernandes
Executive Vice President
ARCO
David Gergen [CFR]
Editor-At-Large
U.S. News & World Report
Alma L. Gildenhorn
Honorary Trustee, Kennedy Center
Chairman, National Campaign
University of Maryland Center for the Performing Arts
William H. Gray, III
President and CEO
United Negro College Fund, Inc.
Gerald Greenwald
Chairman and CEO
United Airlines
Rita E. Hauser [CFR]
President
The Hauser Foundation, Inc.
Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr.
President and CEO
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Nina R. Houghton
Chairman
Wye Institute
Ann Frasher Hudson
Mae Jemison
President
The Jemison Group, Inc.
Elmer W. Johnson
Kirkland & Ellis
Peter R. Kann [CFR]
Chairman and Publisher
Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Yotaro Kobayashi [CFR]
Chairman and CEO
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
David H. Koch
Executive Vice President, Chemical Technology
Koch Industries, Inc.
Leonard A. Lauder [CFR]
President and CEO
Estée Lauder Companies
Gerald M. Levin
Chairman and CEO
Time Warner, Inc.
Peter B. Lewis
Chairman, President, and CEO
The Progressive Corporation
Frederic V. Malek [CFR]
Chairman
Thayer Capital Partners
John P. Mascotte
President and CEO
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, Inc.
William Mayer
Dean of Business School
University of Maryland
Olivier Mellerio
General Partner
Interfinexa;
President
Institut Aspen France
Philip Merrill [CFR]
Chairman
Capital-Gazette Communications
Elinor Bunin Munroe
President
Elinor Bunin Productions, Inc.
Constance Berry Newman
Under Secretary
Smithsonian Institution
William A. Nitze (on leave of absence) [CFR]
Assistant Administrator for the Office of International Activities
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Olara A. Otunnu
President
International Peace Academy
Hisashi Owada
Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations
Elaine Pagels Greenawalt
Professor of Religion
Princeton University
John J. Phelan, Jr. [CFR]
Retired Chairman and CEO
New York Stock Exchange
Francis S. Pittard
President and CEO
Heidrick &Struggles, Inc.
Sir Charles Powell
Director
Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd.
Edzard Reuter [CFR]
Former Chairman
Daimler Benz AG;
Chairman
Aspen Institute Berlin
Ann W. Richards
Former Governor of Texas
Senior Advisor, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand
Carlo Scognamiglio
President
The Senate of Italy;
Chairman
Aspen Institute Italia
Kathy Smith
Former Director
Daubert Industries
Andrew Stern
International President
Service Employees International Union
Alexander B. Trowbridge [CFR]
President
Trowbridge Partners
Solomon D. Trujillo
President and CEO
US West Communications
Linda J. Wachner [CFR]
Chairman, President, and CEO
Warnaco Inc.
Arnold R. Weber
President
Civic Committee
Leslie H. Wexner
President and Chairman
The Limited, Inc.
Frederick B. Whittemore [CFR]
Advisory Director
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
Michael H. Wilson [CFR]
Chairman
Michael Wilson International, Inc.
Alice Young [CFR]
Chair, Asia-Pacific Practice (U.S.)
Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays, and Handler
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Honorary Trustees
Mortimer J. Adler
San Mateo, California
Robert O. Anderson [CFR]
Roswell, New Mexico
Douglas Fraser [CFR]
President Emeritus
United Automobile Workers
Sidney Harman [CFR]
Chairman and CEO
Harman International Industries, Inc.
Masaru Ibuka
SONY Corporation [CFR affiliate]
Yoshizo Ikeda
Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
Howard W. Johnson
Honorary Chairman of the Corporation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [CFR affiliate]
Henry A. Kissinger [CFR]
Washington, D.C.
David T. McLaughlin
President Emeritus
The Aspen Institute
Robert S. McNamara [CFR]
Washington, D.C.
Warren Rudman [CFR]
Former U.S. Senator;
Partner
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison
Joseph E. Slater
President Emeritus
The Aspen Institute;
Chairman
The John J. McCloy International Center [CFR affiliate]
Cyrus R. Vance [CFR]
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett
Paul Volcker [CFR]
Wolfensohn & Co., Inc.
Trustees Emeriti
Lester E. Anderson
Former Chief Executive Officer
Random Lengths, Inc.
Winton M. Blount
Chairman and CEO
Blount, Inc.
Rodrigo Botero
Cambridge, Massachusetts
John Brademas [CFR]
President Emeritus
New York University
Charles L. Brown
Former Chairman
AT&T Company
Alan Bullock
Fellow of the British Academy
St. Catherine's College
Oxford University
Lisle C. Carter, Jr.
Attorney
Jack G. Clarke [CFR]
Retired Director and Senior Vice President
Exxon Corporation
William T. Coleman, Jr. [CFR]
O'Melveny & Myers
Umberto Colombo [CFR]
Minister for the Universities and Scientific and Technological Research
Italy
Lodwrick M. Cook
Chairman and CEO
ARCO
Francis Mading Deng
Senior Research Associate
Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
Paul Deutz
President
Totem Enterprises
Marion Grafin Donhoff
Publisher, Die Zeit
James L. Ferguson [CFR]
Retired Chairman
General Foods Corp.
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
Publisher
Die Zeit
Marvin L. Goldberger [CFR]
Professor of Physics
University of California, San Diego
Jacqueline Grapin
President
The European Institute
Najeeb E. Halaby [CFR]
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Save the Children
Philip M. Hawley
Chairman and CEO
Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc.
Shirley Hufstedler [CFR]
Morrison & Foerster
Robert S. Ingersoll [CFR]
Evanston, Illinois
Kinichi Kadono
Senior Advisor
Toshiba Corporation
Hahn-Been Lee
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Robert Malott
Chairman of Executive Committee
FMC Corporation
Elizabeth J. McCormack [CFR]
Associate
Rockefeller Family & Associates
George C. McGhee [CFR]
Washington, D.C.
Donald C. McKinlay
Denver, Colorado
Martin Meyerson [CFR]
President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Policy
University of Pennsylvania
Robert A. Mosbacher
Houston, Texas
Paul H. Nitze [CFR]
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University
Seizo Ota
President and CEO
Toho Mutual Life Insurance Company
James A. Perkins [CFR]
Princeton, New Jersey
Burnell R. Roberts
Retired Chairman and CEO
Mead Corporation
Frederick P. Rose [CFR]
Chairman
Rose Associates, Inc.
Lloyd Schermer
Chairman of the Board
Lee Enterprises, Inc.
Jack Sheinkman
President
Amalgamated Bank of New York
Maurice F. Strong
Chairman and CEO
Ontario Hydro
Haruo Suzuki
Honorary Chairman
Showa Denko K. K.
Phillips Talbot [CFR]
President Emeritus
The Asia Society
Glenn E. Watts [CFR]
President Emeritus
Communications Workers of America
A. George Weidenfeld
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. [CFR]
Former Chairman and CEO
TIAA-CREF
Dolores Wharton
Founder and Chair
Fund for Corporate Initiatives, Inc.
Colin W. Williams
President Emeritus
The Aspen Institute
Lynn R. Williams
International President
United Steelworkers of America
Leonard Woodcock
Adjunct Professor of Political Science
University of Michigan
Thomas H. Wyman
Chairman
S. G. Warburg & Co., Inc.
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Aspen Institute
Board of Trustees
Officers of the Board
William E. Mayer
Partner, Park Avenue Equity
Chairman of the Board
Elmer W. Johnson
President
Henry E. Catto [CFR]
Former Ambassador to Great Britain
Vice Chairman
Lester Crown
Chairman
Material Service Corporation
Vice Chairman
Cynthia N. Buniski
Corporate Secretary
The Aspen Institute
Members of the Board
Mervyn L. Adelson
Chairman
East-West Capital Associates
Paul F. Anderson [CFR]
Senior Vice President
Booz, Allen and Hamilton Inc.
Prince Bandar bin Sultan
Ambassador to the United States
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Raymond Barre
Former Mayor, Lyons;
Chairman Advisory Committee
Institut Aspen France
Mercedes R. Bass
Sid R. Bass, Inc.
Berl Bernhard
Chairman
Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson
and Hand
James C. Calaway
Founder
Edge Petroleum Corporation
Stephen L. Carter
Professor of Law
Yale University Law School
Henry E. Catto [CFR]
Former Ambassador to Great Britain;
Vice Chairman
The Aspen Institute
F. Peter Cundill
President
Peter Cundill and Associates (Bermuda) Ltd.
Lester Crown
Chairman
Material Service Corporation
William L. Davis
The Davis Group
Andrea Cunningham
Chief Executive Officer
Citigate-Cunningham, Inc.
William H. Donaldson [CFR]
CEO, Chairman & President
Aetna, Inc.
Al Dietsch
Chairman of the Board of Directors
City Ice Company
Henrietta Holsman Fore
Chairman and CEO
Holsman International
Sandra Feldman
President
American Federation of Teachers
David Gergen [CFR]
Professor of Political Science
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Editor-At-Large
U.S. News and World Report
Jack D. Furst
Partner
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst
Gerald Greenwald
Chairman Emeritus
United Airlines
Alma L. Gildenhorn
Honorary Trustee, Kennedy Center
Chairman, National Campaign
University of Maryland Center for the Performing Arts
Rita E. Hauser [CFR]
President
The Hauser Foundation, Inc.
Sidney Harman [CFR]
Chairman
Harman International Industries, Inc.
Ann Frasher Hudson
Partner
Javelina Partners
Nina Rodale Houghton
Chairman
Wye Institute
Peter R. Kann [CFR]
Chairman and Publisher
Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
Elmer W. Johnson
President and CEO
The Aspen Institute
David H. Koch
Executive Vice President, Chemical Technology
Koch Industries, Inc.
Yotaro Kobayashi [CFR]
Chairman and CEO
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
Leonard A. Lauder [CFR]
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Estée Lauder Companies
Timothy K. Krauskopf
Vice President and General Manager
Internet Software and Content Group
Motorola, Inc.
Frederic V. Malek
Chairman
Thayer Capital Partners
Gerald M. Levin
Chairman and CEO
Time Warner, Inc.
William E. Mayer
Partner
Park Avenue Equity
John P. Mascotte
President and CEO
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, Inc.
Olivier Mellerio
Chairman
Institut Aspen France
Ann McLaughlin [CFR]
Former Chairman of the Aspen Institute
Elinor Bunin Munroe
President
Elinor Bunin Productions, Inc.
Philip Merrill [CFR]
Chairman
Capital-Gazette Communications
William A. Nitze [CFR]
Assistant Administrator for the Office of International Activities
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Constance Berry Newman
Upstart Partners
Hisashi Owada
Former Representitve of Japan to the U.N.;
President
The Japan Institute of
International Affairs
Olara A. Otunnu
Under-Secretary General
Special Representative to the U.N.
Secretary General for Children and
Armed Conflict
John J. Phelan, Jr. [CFR]
Retired Chairman and CEO
New York Stock Exchange
Elaine Pagels Greenawalt
Professor of Religion
Princeton University
Lynda Resnick
Co-Owner and Vice-Chairman
Roll International Corporation
Lord Charles Powell
Sagitta Asset Management Limited
Johnathan Rodgers
President
Discovery Networks, US
Ann W. Richards
Former Governor of Texas;
Senior Advisor
Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand
Albert H. Small
President
Southern Engineering Corp.
Carlo Scognamiglio
Chairman
Aspen Institute Italia
Andrew L. Stern
International President
Service Employees International Union
Kathy Daubert Smith
Former Director
Daubert Industries
Linda J. Wachner [CFR]
Chairman, President, and CEO
Warnaco Inc.
Alexander B. Trowbridge [CFR]
President
Trowbridge Partners
Leslie H. Wexner
President and Chairman
The Limited, Inc.
Arnold R. Weber
President Emeritus
Northwestern University
Michael H. Wilson
Chairman & CEO
RT Capital Management Inc.
Frederick B. Whittemore [CFR]
Advisory Director
Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc.
Alice Young, Esq. [CFR]
Chair, Asia-Pacific Practice (U.S.)
Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays, and Handler
Honorary Trustees
Mortimer J. Adler
San Mateo, California
Robert O. Anderson [CFR]
Former Chairman
The Aspen Institute
Roswell, New Mexico
Douglas Fraser
President Emeritus
United Automobile Workers
Sidney Harman [CFR]
Chairman and CEO
Harman International Industries, Inc.
Yoshizo Ikeda
Mitsui and Co.
Howard W. Johnson [CFR]
Honorary Chairman of the Corporation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry A. Kissinger [CFR]
Former U.S. Secretary
of State
David T. McLaughlin [CFR]
President Emeritus
The Aspen Institute
Robert S. McNamara [CFR]
Former President
The World Bank
Warren B. Rudman [CFR]
Former U.S. Senator;
Partner
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison
Joseph E. Slater [CFR]
President Emeritus
The Aspen Institute;
Chairman
The John J. McCloy International Center
Cyrus R. Vance [CFR]
Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett
Paul Volcker
Former Chairman of the Board
of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System
Trustees Emeriti
Lester E. Anderson
Former Chief Executive Officer
Random Lengths, Inc.
Winton M. Blount
Chairman and CEO
Blount, Inc.
Rodrigo Botero
Cambridge, Massachusetts
John Brademas [CFR]
President Emeritus
New York University
Charles L. Brown
Former Chairman
AT&T Company
Alan Bullock
Fellow of the British Academy
St. Catherine's College
Oxford University
Lisle C. Carter, Jr.
Attorney
Jack G. Clarke
Retired Director and Senior Vice President
Exxon Corporation
William T. Coleman, Jr. [CFR]
O'Melveny and Myers
Umberto Colombo [CFR]
Former Minister for the Universities and Scientific and Technological Research
Italy
Lodwrick M. Cook
Former Chairman
ARCO
Francis Mading Deng
Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institute
Paul Deutz
Chairman
KAP Resources
Marion Grafin Donhoff
Publisher, Die Zeit
James L. Ferguson [CFR]
Retired Chairman
General Foods Corp.
Marvin L. Goldberger [CFR]
Professor of Physics
University of California, San Diego
Jacqueline Grapin
President
The European Institute
Najeeb E. Halaby [CFR]
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Save the Children
Philip M. Hawley
Chairman and CEO
Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc
Irvine Hockaday, Jr.
President and CEO
Hallmark Cards
Shirley Hufstedler [CFR]
Morrison and Foerster
Robert S. Ingersoll [CFR]
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Kinichi Kadono
Senior Advisor
Toshiba Corporation
Hahn-Been Lee
Chairman of the Board
Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Robert Malott
Retired Chairman and CEO
FMC Corporation
Elizabeth J. McCormack [CFR]
Associate
Rockefeller Family and Associates
George C. McGhee [CFR]
Washington, D.C.
Donald C. McKinlay
Former Secretary and Council
The Aspen Institute
Martin Meyerson [CFR]
President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Policy
University of Pennsylvania
Robert A. Mosbacher
Chairman
Mosbacher Energy Co.
Paul H. Nitze [CFR]
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University
Seizo Ota
President and CEO
Toho Mutual Life Insurance Company
James A. Perkins [CFR]
Princeton, New Jersey
Burnell R. Roberts
Retired Chairman and CEO
Mead Corporation
Lloyd Schermer
Chairman of the Board
Lee Enterprises, Inc.
Jack Sheinkman
Vice Chairman
Amalgamated Bank of New York
Maurice F. Strong
Under Secretary General
The United Nations
Haruo Suzuki
Honorary Chairman
Showa Denko K. K.
Phillips Talbot
President Emeritus
The Asia Society
Glenn E. Watts
President Emeritus
Communications Workers of America
A. George Weidenfeld
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, LTD.
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. [CFR]
Former Chairman and CEO
TIAA-CREF
Dolores Wharton
Founder and Chair
Fund for Corporate Initiatives, Inc.
Lynn R. Williams
International President (retired)
United Steelworkers of America
Leonard Woodcock
Adjunct Professor of Political Science
University of Michigan
Thomas H. Wyman [CFR]
Senior Advisor
SBC Warburg Inc.
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