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Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Founded in 1921, it is an independent and nonpartisan nonprofit organization. CFR is based in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. Its membership has included senior politicians, secretaries of state, CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, corporate directors, CEOs, and prominent media figures.

Not to be confused with United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or European Council on Foreign Relations.

Abbreviation

CFR

1921 (1921)

Think tank

Harold Pratt House, 58 East 68th Street, Manhattan

Michael Froman[1]

David Rubenstein

$102,605,000[2]

$79,073,100[2]

cfr.org

CFR meetings convene government officials, global business leaders, and prominent members of the intelligence and foreign-policy communities to discuss international issues. CFR has published the bi-monthly journal Foreign Affairs since 1922. It also runs the David Rockefeller Studies Program, which makes recommendations to presidential administrations and the diplomatic community, testifies before Congress, interacts with the media, and publishes research on foreign policy issues.


Michael Froman is the organization's 15th president,[3] succeeding Richard N. Haass, who stepped down in June 2023.

(chairman) – cofounder and co-chief executive officer, The Carlyle Group, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, chairman of the board for Duke University, co-chair of the board at the Brookings Institution, president of the Economic Club of Washington, and owner of the Baltimore Orioles.

David M. Rubenstein

(vice chairman) – cofounder, Centerview Partners

Blair Effron

(vice chairman) – chief executive officer and vice chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. Ms. Miscik served as the global head of sovereign risk at Lehman Brothers. She also serves as a senior advisor to Barclays Capital

Jami Miscik

(president emeritus) – former State Department director of policy planning and lead U.S. official on Afghanistan and Northern Ireland (2001–2003), and principal Middle East adviser to President George H.W. Bush (1989–1993)

Richard N. Haass

− chair, National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board, NASA

Thad W. Allen

– president, American University; former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (2014–2017) under President Barack Obama

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

− chairman and managing director, General Catalyst

Kenneth I. Chenault

– chairman, NBCUniversal News Group

Cesar Conde

– chairman and chief executive officer, Morgan Stanley

James P. Gorman

– principal at Rice, Hadley, Gates, and Manuel; he was the 21st National Security Advisor

Stephen Hadley

− foreign secretary, National Academy of Medicine

Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg

– founder and president, Emerson Collective

Laurene Powell Jobs

− partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, former Homeland Security Secretary (2013–2017) under President Barack Obama

Jeh Charles Johnson

– professor of national security, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin

William H. McRaven

– professor of public policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, former U.S. Attorney (1993–1997), Attorney General of Arizona (1999–2003), Governor of Arizona (2003–2009), and President Barack Obama's first Homeland Security Secretary (2009–2013)

Janet Napolitano

− Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Meghan L. O'Sullivan

– managing director, Insight Partners

Deven J. Parekh

− managing partner and cofounder, Recognize

Charles Phillips

– chief executive officer, Eden Productions

Richard L. Plepler

– senior vice president and chief financial officer, Alphabet and Google

Ruth Porat

− executive vice president of corporate affairs, Activision Blizzard

Frances Fragos Townsend

Tracey T. Travis – executive vice president of finance and chief financial officer,

Estée Lauder Companies

– vice chairman, IHS Markit

Daniel Yergin

– host, CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS; editor at large of Time magazine, and regular columnist for The Washington Post; from 2000 to 2010, Zakaria was the editor of Newsweek International, and managing editor of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 2000

Fareed Zakaria

As of 2019 members of CFR's board of directors include:[17]

As a charity[edit]

The Council on Foreign Relations received a three-star rating (out of four stars) from Charity Navigator in fiscal year 2016, as measured by an analysis of the council's financial data and "accountability and transparency".[18] In fiscal year 2023, the council received a four-star rating (98 percent) from Charity Navigator.[19]

The council publishes the international affairs magazine . It also establishes independent task forces, which bring together various experts to produce reports offering both findings and policy prescriptions on foreign policy topics. CFR has sponsored more than fifty reports, including the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America that published report No. 53, entitled Building a North American Community, in May 2005.[24]

Foreign Affairs

The United States in World Affairs (annual)

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Political Handbook of the World (annual)

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Members of the Council on Foreign Relations

Parmar, Inderjeet (2004). Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939−1945. London: .

Palgrave

Schulzinger, Robert D. (1984). . New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231055285.

The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs

Wala, Michael (1994). The Council on Foreign Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War. Providence, RI: Berghann Books.  157181003X.

ISBN

Official website

at Library of Congress (2001–2018)

Archived website

at Curlie

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Council on Foreign Relations Papers

"Multimedia Crisis Guides"

. File. FBI. August 27, 1931. 62-5256.

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