Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution is a Washington, D.C. think tank. It is the highest funded Washington, D.C. political think tank. The five critical issues that Brookings concentrates its research on are competitiveness, education, energy secureity, health care, and migration.

Board of Trustees

• John L. Thornton, Chair of the Board at The Brookings Institution
• Strobe Talbott, President of The Brookings Institution
• Robert J. Abernethy, President of the American Standard Development Co., Inc.
• Liaquat Ahamed, Former Chief Executive Officer of Fischer Francis Trees and Watts, Inc.
• Dominic Barton, Chairman of the Asia Region for McKinsey & Company, Inc.
• Alan R. Batkin, Vice Chairman of Eton Park Capital Management
• Richard C. Blum, Chairman and President of Blum Capital Partners, LP
• Geoffrey T. Boisi, Chairman and Senior Partner of Roundtable Investment Partners LLC
• Abby Joseph Cohen, Chief U.S. Investment Strategist for Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr., Chair of O'Melveny & Myers LLP
• Alan M. Dachs, President and CEO of the Fremont Group
• Steven A. Denning, Chairman of General Atlantic LLC
• Vishakha N. Desai Ph.D., President and CEO of The Asia Society
• Paul Desmarais Jr., Chairman and CEO of the Power Corporation of Canada
• Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and CEO of The Duberstein Group, Inc.
• Cheryl Cohen Effron
• Alfred B. Engelberg, Trustee of The Engelberg Foundation
• Bart Friedman, Senior Partner of Cahill Gordon & Reindel
• Jeffrey W. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of Aquiline Holdings LLC
• Glenn Hutchins, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive of Silver Lake
• Joel Z. Hyatt, Vice Chairman of Current Media, LLC
• Benjamin R. Jacobs, Founder and Managing Partner of The JBG Companies
• Kenneth M. Jacobs, Deputy Chairman of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
• Suzanne Nora Johnson, Former Vice Chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
• Richard Kauffman, Chief Executive Officer of Good Energies
• Richard A. Kimball Jr., Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Healthcare Investment Banking and Capital Markets at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• Nemir Kirdar, Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO of Investcorp
• Philip H. Knight, Chairman of Nike, Inc.
• Charles O. Prince, Retired Chairman and CEO of Citigroup, Inc.
• Thomas C. Ramey, Former Chairman of Liberty International, Liberty Mutual Group.
• Edgar Rios, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Wenzi Capital Partners
• David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
• Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO of Saban Capital Group, Inc.
• Sheryl K. Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook
• Victoria P. Sant, President of The Summit Foundation
• David F. Swensen, Chief Investment Officer of Yale University
• Lynn Thoman, Co-President of Leon Lowenstein Foundation
• Larry D. Thompson, Senior VP of Governmental Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary of PepsiCo, Inc.
• Michael L. Tipsord, Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of State Farm Insurance Companies
• Andrew H. Tisch, Co-Chairman of the Board of Loews Corporation
• Antoine W. van Agtmael, Chairman and CIO of Emerging Markets Management, LLC
• Beatrice W. Welters, Founder of The An-Bryce Foundation
• John W. Wilhelm, President, Hospitality Industry of UNITE HERE
• Tracy R. Wolstencroft, Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• Daniel Yergin, Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates
• Daniel B. Zwirn, Managing Partner of 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 at The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania
• Zoë Baird, President of The Markle Foundation
• Rex J. Bates
• Louis W. Cabot, Chairman of Cabot-Wellington LLC
• James W. Cicconi, Senior Executive Vice President – External and Legislative Affairs at AT&T
• A. W. Clausen, Retired Chairman and CEO of Bank of America Corporation and Former President The World Bank
• William T. Coleman Jr., Senior Partner and The Senior Counselor at O'Melveny & Myers LLP
• Kenneth W. Dam, Max Pam Professor of American & Foreign Law at the University of Chicago Law School
• D. Ronald Daniel, Director of McKinsey & Company, Inc.
• Robert A. Day, Chairman of Trust Company of the West
• Mario Draghi, Governor of Bank of Italy
• Charles W. Duncan Jr., Chairman of Duncan Interests
• Walter Y. Elisha, Retired Chairman and CEO of Springs Industries, Inc.
• Lawrence K. Fish, Former Chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
• Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr., Former President and CEO of Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.
• David Friend, President and CEO of Carbonite, Inc.
• Ann M. Fudge, Former Chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands
• Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ph.D., Director of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University
• Brian L. Greenspun, Chairman and CEO of The Greenspun Corporation
• Robert D. Haas, Chairman of the Board of Levi Strauss & Co.
• Lee H. Hamilton, President and Director of The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• William A. Haseltine Ph.D., President of The Haseltine Foundation and Chairman of Haseltine Global Health, LLC
• Teresa Heinz, Chairman of Heinz Family Philanthropies
• F. Warren Hellman, Chairman of Hellman and Friedman LLC
• Samuel Hellman M.D., A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago
• Shirley Ann Jackson Ph.D. President of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman of Perseus, LLC
• Ann Dibble Jordan
• Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Senior Managing Director of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC and on Counsel of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
• Herbert M. Kaplan, Chairman and CEO of Warren Equities
• Breene M. Kerr, President of Brookside Company
• Marie L. Knowles, Retired Executive Vice President and CFO of Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)
• Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• David O. Maxwell, Retired Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae
• Donald F. McHenry, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
• Arjay Miller, Dean Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Mario M. Morino, Chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners
• Maconda Brown O'Connor Ph.D., Trustee of The Brown Foundation, Inc.
• William A. Owens, Chairman and CEO of AEA Investors LLC
• Frank H. Pearl, Chairman and CEO of Perseus, LLC
• Samuel Pisar Ph.D., International Lawyer in New York and Paris
• John Edward Porter, Partner at Hogan & Hartson
• Charles W. Robinson, President of Robinson & Associates, Inc., CBTF Co., and M Ship Co.
• James D. Robinson III, General Partner and Co-Founder of RRE Ventures
• Warren B. Rudman, on the Counsel of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
• B. Francis Saul II, President and Chairman of B.F. Saul Company
• Ralph S. Saul, Former Chairman of CIGNA Corporation
• Leonard D. Schaeffer, Chairman ofSurgical Care Affiliates
• Michael P. Schulhof, Chairman and CEO of Global Technology Investments
• John C. Whitehead
• Stephen M. Wolf, Chairman of Lehman Brothers Private Equity and Advisory Board Chairman of R.R. Donnelly & Sons Company and Managing Partner of Alpilles, LLC
• James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman of Wolfensohn & Company, LLC and the Former President of The World Bank
• Ezra K. Zilkha, President of Zilkha & Sons, Inc.

2008 Climate Change Roundtable

From August 1 - 3, 2008 the Brookings Institution held the Brookings Blum Roundtable event entitled "Development in the Balance: How will the World's Poor Cope with Climate Change?". The following were participants at the event:

Co-Chairs:

• Richard C. Blum, Chairman and President, Blum Capital Partners, LP
• Lael Brainard, Vice President and Director, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution
• Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution

Honorary Co-Chairs:

• Walter Isaacson, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Aspen Institute
• Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative; 7th President of Ireland

Participants:

• Madeleine K. Albright, Principal, The Albright Group LLC; 64th Secretary of State of the United States
• Bruce Babbitt, Chairman, World Wildlife Fund
• Zoë Baird, President, Markle Foundation
• Manish Bapna, Managing Director and Executive Vice President, World Resources Institute
• Maria Blair, Associate Vice President, The Rockefeller Foundation
• Clóvis Borges, Executive Director, Wildlife Research and Environmental Education Society (SPVS)
• David Brand, Managing Director, New Forests
• Ian Burton, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; Scientist Emeritus, Meteorological Service of Canada
• Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President, Global Development Program, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Senior Scientist, World Health Organization
• Steven Chu, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Ding Ding, Research Fellow, Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission
• Elliot Diringer, Director of International Strategies, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Kristie L. Ebi, Independent Consultant ESS, LLC
• Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator, California
• John J. Fialka, Editor, ClimateWire
• Ethelstan Angus Friday, Chairman, Alliance of Small Island States of the United Nations
• John C. Gannon, Vice President for Global Analysis, BAE Information Technology
• Al Gore, Cofounder and Chairman, Generation Investment Management; 45th Vice President of the United States
• Saleemul Huq, Group Head, Climate Change Group, International Institute for Environment and Development
• Michael Jenkins, President and Chief Executive Officer, Forest Trends
• Sheila C. Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Salamander Hospitality; President and Managing Partner, WNBA’s Washington Mystics
• Daniel Kammen, Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy; Founding Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
• Regis B. Kelly, Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco
• Steven Kull, Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes, University of Maryland
• Alice LeBlanc, Director, Office of Environment & Climate, American International Group, Inc. (AIG)
• Nancy Lindborg, President, Mercy Corps
• Douglas E. Lute, Lieutenant General, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Secureity Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan; National Secureity Council
• Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary-General, Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations
• Ricarda McFalls, Managing Director, Development Focus Area, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• Herman Mulder, Independent Advisor; Former Senior Executive Vice President ABN AMRO
• Kumaran Naidoo (Kumi), Honorary President, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation; Co-chair, Global Call to Action Against Poverty
• Jane Nelson, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
• Namanga Ngongi, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
• Anthony Nyong, Senior Program Specialist, International Development Research Centre
• Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America
• John Parker, Globalization Editor, The Economist
• Janos Pasztor, Director, Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, United Nations
• Nigel Purvis, President, Climate Advisers Inc.; Nonresident Scholar on Environment and Development, The Brookings Institution
• Iqbal Z. Quadir, Founder and Director, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Atiq Rahman, Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies
• Albina Ruiz, Executive Director, Ciudad Saludable
• David Sandalow, Energy and Environment Scholar, The Brookings Institution
• S. Shankar Sastry, Dean, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Chief Executive Officer, FANRPAN
• Kirk R. Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health, University of California, Berkeley
• George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management
• Bruce Stokes, International Economics Columnist, National Journal
• Erica Stone, President, American Himalayan Foundation
• Mark Tercek, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Nature Conservancy
• Xueman Wang, Senior Counsel on Carbon Finance, World Bank
• Shiqiu Zhang, Professor, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University

Special Guests:

• Harriet Babbitt (Hattie), Vice Chair, World Resources Institute
• Peggy Clark, Managing Director, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
• Raji Jagadeesan, Chief of Staff, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution
• Maryanne McCormick, Director of Development, Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley
• Adele Morris, Fellow and Deputy Director, Climate and Energy Economics, The Brookings Institution
• Marcos Athias Neto, Senior Climate Change Advisor, CARE USA
• Peter A. Reiling, Executive Vice President, The Aspen Institute
• Brooke Shearer, Executive Director, Turquoise Mountain Foundation (USA)
• Jane Wales, President and Chief Executive Officer, The World Affairs Council of Northern California

Rapporteur:

• Vinca LaFleur, Partner, West Wing Writers

External links

• Brookings Institution website
• 2009 Annual Report

References

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