Board of Trustees

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.

John L. Thornton
Chair of the Board
The Brookings Institution

Glenn Hutchins
Vice Chair of the Board
The Brookings Institution
Co-Founder
Silver Lake

Suzanne Nora Johnson
Vice Chair of the Board
The Brookings Institution
Former Vice Chairman
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

David M. Rubenstein
Vice Chair of the Board
The Brookings Institution
Co-Founder and Managing Director
The Carlyle Group

Strobe Talbott
President
The Brookings Institution

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

Dominic Barton
Global Managing Director
McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Robert M. Bass
President
Keystone Group, L.P.

Alan R. Batkin
Vice Chairman
Eton Park Capital Management 

Crandall Bowles
Chairman
Spring Industries, Inc.

Hanzade Doğan Boyner
Vice Chairwoman
Doğan Holding Şirketler Grubu A.Ş.

Paul L. Cejas
Chairman
PLC Investment, Inc.

John S. Chen
Chairman and CEO
Sybase

Abby Joseph Cohen
President, Global Markets Institute and Senior Investment Strategist
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Howard E. Cox
Advisory Partner
Greylock

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

Paul Desmarais Jr.
Chairman and Co-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

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

Ellen Futter
President
American Museum of Natural History

Jeffrey  W. Greenberg
Chairman
Aquiline Holdings LLC

Brian L. Greenspun
Chairman and CEO
Greenspun Media Group

Shirley Ann Jackson Ph.D.
President
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Benjamin R. Jacobs

Senior Advisor/Founder
The JBG Companies

Kenneth M. Jacobs
Chairman and CEO
Lazard

Richard A. Kimball Jr.

Nemir Kirdar
Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO
Investcorp

Klaus Kleinfeld
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Alcoa, Inc.

Philip H. Knight
Chairman
Nike, Inc.

Rajan Bharti Mittal
Vice Chairman and Managing Director
Bharti Enterprises Limited

Nigel Morris
Managing Partner
QED Investors

James Murren
Chairman and CEO
MGM Resorts International

Thomas C. Ramey
Former Chairman
Liberty International, Liberty Mutual Group 

Edgar Rios
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Wenzi Capital Partners

James Rogers
Chairman President, and CEO
Duke Energy 

Victoria P. Sant
President
The Summit Foundation
 
Leonard D. Schaeffer
Founding Chairman & CEO
WellPoint

Lynn Thoman
Co-President
Leon Lowenstein Foundation

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

Michael L. Tipsord
Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer
State Farm Insurance Companies

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

Antoine W. van Agtmael
Senior Advisor
Garten Rothkopf
Former Chairman
Ashmore EMM, LLC

John H. White Jr.
President and CEO
Taco, Inc.

John W. Wilhelm
President
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Tracy R. Wolstencroft
Advisory Director
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Daniel Yergin
Vice-Chairman
IHS, Inc.
Founder
IHS Cambridge Energry Research Associates

Daniel B. Zwirn
Managing Partner
Zwirn Family Interests, LLC

 

HONORARY TRUSTEES 

Louis W. Cabotchair emeritus 
Chairman
Cabot-Wellington LLC

James A. Johnsonchair emeritus 
Vice Chairman
Perseus, LLC

John C. Whitehead
chair emeritus 

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

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

Zoë Baird Budinger
President
The Markle Foundation

Rex J. Bates

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

Geoffrey T. Boisi
Chairman and CEO
Roundtable Investment Partners LLC

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

William T. Coleman Jr.
Senior Partner and The Senior Counselor
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
Former President and CEO
The Asia Society

Mario Draghi 
President
European Central Bank

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

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr.
Chairman
Old Harbour Partners, LLC

David Friend
President and CEO
Carbonite, Inc.

Lee H. Hamilton
Director
The Center on Congress
Indiana University

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

Teresa Heinz
Chairman
Heinz Family Foundation

Joel Z. Hyatt
CEO
Current Media, LLC

Ann Dibble Jordan

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

Herbert M. Kaplan
Chairman and CEO
Warren Equities

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
Co-Founder and Chairman
Venture Philanthropy Partners

Samuel Pisar, Ph.D.
International Lawyer

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

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

Haim Saban
Chairman and CEO
Saban Capital Group, Inc.

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

Ralph S. Saul
Former Chairman
CIGNA Corporation

Michael P. Schulhof
Chairman and CEO
Global Technology Investments

Stephen M. Wolf
Chairman
RR Donnelly and Sons Company

Ezra K. Zilkha
President
Zilkha & Sons, Inc.