The Brookings Board of Trustees is composed of distinguished business executives, academics, former government officials and community leaders. Trustees serve three-year terms and meet three times a year. The Board's role is to provide governance of the business and affairs of the Institution, approve the fields of scholarly investigation, and safeguard the independence of the Institution's work.

Trustees

John L. Thornton
Chair of the Board
The Brookings Institution

Strobe Talbott
President
The Brookings Institution

Robert J. Abernethy
President
American Standard Development Co., Inc.

Liaquat Ahamed
Former Chief Executive Officer
Fischer Francis Trees and Watts, Inc.

Alan R. Batkin
Vice Chairman
Eton Park Capital Management

Richard C. Blum
Chairman and President
Blum Capital Partners, LP

Geoffrey T. Boisi
Chairman and Senior Partner
Roundtable Investment Partners LLC

Abby Joseph Cohen
Chief US Investment Strategist
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr.
Chair
O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Alan M. Dachs
President and CEO
Fremont Group

Kenneth W. Dam
Max Pam Professor of American & Foreign Law
University of Chicago Law School

Steven A. Denning
Chairman
General Atlantic LLC

Vishakha N. Desai Ph.D.
President and CEO
The Asia Society

Paul Desmarais Jr.
Chairman and CEO
Power Corporation of Canada
 
Thomas E. Donilon
Partner
O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Mario Draghi
Governor
Bank of Italy

Kenneth M. Duberstein
Chairman and CEO
The Duberstein Group, Inc.

Alfred B. Engelberg
Trustee
The Engelberg Foundation

Lawrence K. Fish
Chairman and CEO
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr.
President and CEO
Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.

Bart Friedman
Senior Partner
Cahill Gordon & Reindel

David Friend
President and CEO
Carbonite, Inc.

Ann M. Fudge
Former Chairman and CEO
Young & Rubicam Brands

Jeffrey W. Greenberg
Chairman and CEO
Aquiline Holdings LLC

Brian L. Greenspun
Chairman and CEO
The Greenspun Corporation

Glenn Hutchins
Founder and Managing Partner
Silver Lake Partners

Joel Z. Hyatt
CEO
Current Media, LLC

Shirley Ann Jackson Ph.D.
President
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Kenneth M. Jacobs
Deputy Chairman
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC

Suzanne Nora Johnson
Senior Director, Retired Vice Chairman
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Philip H. Knight
Chairman
Nike, Inc.

Harold Hongju Koh
Dean of Yale Law School
Yale University

William A. Owens
Chairman and CEO
AEA Investors LLC

Frank H. Pearl
Chairman and CEO
Perseus, LLC

John Edward Porter
Partner
Hogan & Hartson

Edgar Rios
Wenzi Capital Partners

Haim Saban
Chairman and CEO
Saban Capital Group, Inc.

Sheryl K. Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer
Facebook

Victoria P. Sant
President
The Summit Foundation

Leonard D. Schaeffer
Chairman
Surgical Care Affiliates

Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Harvard University

David F. Swensen
Chief Investment Officer
Yale University

Larry D. Thompson
Senior VP of Governmental Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary
PepsiCo, Inc.

Andrew H. Tisch
Co-Chairman of the Board
Loews Corporation

Laura D’Andrea Tyson
Professor
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

Antoine W. van Agtmael
Chairman and CIO
Emerging Markets Management, LLC

Beatrice W. Welters
Founder
The An-Bryce Foundation

Daniel Yergin
Chairman
Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Daniel B. Zwirn
Managing Partner
DB Zwirn & Co., LLC


Honorary Trustees

Leonard Abramson
Consultant and Member of the Boards of Directors of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Johns Hopkins University

Elizabeth E. Bailey
Chair and John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Zoë Baird
President
The Markle Foundation

Rex J. Bates

Louis W. Cabot
Chairman
Cabot-Wellington LLC

James W. Cicconi
Senior Executive Vice President – External and Legislative Affairs
AT&T

A. W. Clausen
Retired Chairman and CEO
Bank of America Corporation
Former President
The World Bank

William T. Coleman Jr.
Senior Partner and The Senior Counselor
O'Melveny & Myers LLP

D. Ronald Daniel
Director
McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Robert A. Day
Chairman
Trust Company of the West

Bruce B. Dayton

Charles W. Duncan Jr.
Chairman
Duncan Interests

Walter Y. Elisha
Retired Chairman and CEO
Springs Industries, Inc.

Robert F. Erburu
Chairman of the Board (Retired)
The Times Mirror Company

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ph.D.
Director
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
Harvard University

Robert D. Haas
Chairman of the Board
Levi Strauss & Co.

Lee H. Hamilton
President and Director
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

William A. Haseltine Ph.D.
President
The Haseltine Foundation
Chairman
Haseltine Global Health, LLC

Teresa Heinz
Chairman
Heinz Family Philanthropies

F. Warren Hellman
Chairman
Hellman and Friedman LLC

Samuel Hellman M.D.
A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor
The University of Chicago

Robert A. Helman
Partner
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

Roy M. Huffington
Chairman and CEO
Roy M. Huffington, Inc.

James A. Johnson
Vice Chairman
Perseus, LLC

Ann Dibble Jordan

Michael H. Jordan
Chairman
EDS Corporation

Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Senior Managing Director
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Of Counsel
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

Breene M. Kerr
President
Brookside Company

Marie L. Knowles
Retired Executive Vice President and CFO
Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)

James T. Lynn
Retired CEO
Aetna Life & Casualty Company

Jessica Tuchman Mathews
President
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

David O. Maxwell
Retired Chairman and CEO
Fannie Mae

Donald F. McHenry
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and International Affairs
School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University

Robert S. McNamara
Former President
The World Bank

Mary Patterson McPherson
Executive Officer
The American Philosophical Society

Arjay Miller
Dean Emeritus
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Mario M. Morino
Chairman
Venture Philanthropy Partners

Maconda Brown O'Connor Ph.D.
Trustee
The Brown Foundation, Inc.

Samuel Pisar Ph.D.
International Lawyer
New York and Paris

Steven Rattner
Managing Principal
Quadrangle Group LLC

J. Woodward Redmond
President
J.W. Redmond & Company

Charles W. Robinson
President
Robinson & Associates, Inc.,
CBTF Co., and M Ship Co.

James D. Robinson III
General Partner and Co-Founder
RRE Ventures

Warren B. Rudman
Of Counsel
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

B. Francis Saul II
President and Chairman
B.F. Saul Company

Ralph S. Saul
Former Chairman
CIGNA Corporation

Henry B. Schacht
Managing Director and Senior Advisor
Warburg Pincus LLC

Michael P. Schulhof
Chairman and CEO
Global Technology Investments

Joan E. Spero
President
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Vincent J. Trosino
President, COO and Vice Chairman of the Board
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

John C. Whitehead

Stephen M. Wolf
Chairman
Lehman Brothers Private Equity
Advisory Board Chairman
R.R. Donnelly & Sons Company
Managing Partner
Alpilles, LLC

James D. Wolfensohn
Chairman
Wolfensohn & Company, LLC
Former President
The World Bank

Ezra K. Zilkha
President
Zilkha & Sons, Inc.