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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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