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.
Dominic Barton
Chairman of the Asia Region
McKinsey & Company, 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
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
Kenneth M. Duberstein
Chairman and CEO
The Duberstein Group, Inc.
Cheryl Cohen Effron
Alfred B. Engelberg
Trustee
The Engelberg Foundation
Bart Friedman
Senior Partner
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Jeffrey W. Greenberg
Chairman and CEO
Aquiline Holdings LLC
Glenn Hutchins
Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive
Silver Lake
Joel Z. Hyatt
CEO
Current Media, LLC
Benjamin R. Jacobs
Founder and Managing Partner
The JBG Companies
Kenneth M. Jacobs
Deputy Chairman
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Suzanne Nora Johnson
Former Vice Chairman
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Richard Kauffman
Chief Executive Officer
Good Energies
Richard A. Kimball Jr.
Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Healthcare Investment Banking and Capital Markets
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Nemir Kirdar
Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO
Investcorp
Philip H. Knight
Chairman
Nike, Inc.
Charles O. Prince
Retired Chairman and CEO
Citigroup, Inc.
Thomas C. Ramey
Former Chairman
Liberty International, Liberty Mutual Group.
Edgar Rios Co-Founder and Managing Director
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
David F. Swensen
Chief Investment Officer
Yale University
Lynn Thoman
Co-President
Leon Lowenstein Foundation
Larry D. Thompson
Senior VP of Governmental Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary
PepsiCo, Inc.
Michael L. Tipsord
Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
State Farm Insurance Companies
Andrew H. Tisch
Co-Chairman of the Board
Loews Corporation
Antoine W. van Agtmael
Chairman and CIO
Emerging Markets Management, LLC
Beatrice W. Welters
Founder
The An-Bryce Foundation
John W. Wilhelm
President, Hospitality Industry
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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
Kenneth W. Dam
Max Pam Professor of American & Foreign Law
University of Chicago Law School
D. Ronald Daniel
Director
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Robert A. Day
Chairman
Trust Company of the West
Mario Draghi
Governor
Bank of Italy
Charles W. Duncan Jr.
Chairman
Duncan Interests
Walter Y. Elisha
Retired Chairman and CEO
Springs Industries, Inc.
Lawrence K. Fish
Former Chairman and CEO
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr.
Former President and CEO
Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.
David Friend
President and CEO
Carbonite, Inc.
Ann M. Fudge
Former Chairman and CEO
Young & Rubicam Brands
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ph.D.
Director
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
Harvard University
Brian L. Greenspun
Chairman and CEO
The Greenspun Corporation
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
Shirley Ann Jackson Ph.D.
President
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
James A. Johnson
Vice Chairman
Perseus, LLC
Ann Dibble Jordan
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Senior Managing Director
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Of Counsel
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
Herbert M. Kaplan
Chairman and CEO
Warren Equities
Breene M. Kerr
President
Brookside Company
Marie L. Knowles
Retired Executive Vice President and CFO
Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)
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
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.
William A. Owens
Chairman and CEO
AEA Investors LLC
Frank H. Pearl
Chairman and CEO
Perseus, LLC
Samuel Pisar Ph.D.
International Lawyer
New York and Paris
John Edward Porter
Partner
Hogan & Hartson
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
Leonard D. Schaeffer
Chairman
Surgical Care Affiliates
Michael P. Schulhof
Chairman and CEO
Global Technology Investments
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.