How powerful is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?

Instrumental in most of our post WW1 internationalist policies. All of their board members seem to be a who's who of elite billionaires financiers, deep state spooks, and leftists hacks.

CFR Board of Directors

Board Members

Members of CFR's board of directors include:

David M. Rubenstein (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, and president of the Economic Club of Washington.

Blair Effron (Vice Chairman) – Cofounder, Centerview Partners.

Jami Miscik (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. She currently serves on the boards of EMC Corporation, In-Q-Tel and the American Ditchley Foundation, and is a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. Before entering the private sector, she had a twenty-year career as an intelligence officer, including a stint as the Central Intelligence Agency's Deputy Director for Intelligence (2002–2005), and as the Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council (1995–1996).

Richard N. Haass (President) – 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).

Thad W. Allen - Chair, National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board, NASA.

Nicholas F. Beim – Partner, Venrock.

Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, RockCreek.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell – President, American University. Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (2014–2017) under President Barack Obama.

Ashton B. Carter – Director, Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. Former United States Secretary of Defense (2015–2017) under President Barack Obama.

Kenneth I. Chenault - Chairman and Managing Director, General Catalyst.

Tony Coles – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cerevel Therapeutics.

Cesar Conde – Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group.

Nathaniel Fick – General Manager, Elastic Security.

Laurence D. Fink – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer BlackRock.

Stephen C. Freidheim - Chief Investment Officer and Senior Managing Partner, Cyrus Capital Partners

L.P.Timothy Geithner – President, Warburg Pincus. Geithner served as 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury.

James P. Gorman – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Morgan Stanley.

Stephen Hadley – Principal, RiceHadley Gates. He was the 21st National Security Advisor.

Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg - Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine.

Laurene Powell Jobs – Founder and President, Emerson Collective.

Jeh Charles Johnson - Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Former Homeland Security Secretary (2013-2017) under President Barack Obama.

James Manyika – Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Chairman and Director, McKinsey Global Institute.

William H. McRaven – Professor of National Security, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin.

Janet Napolitano – 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).

Meghan L. O'Sullivan - Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Deven J. Parekh – Managing Director, Insight Partners.

Charles Phillips - Managing Partner and Cofounder, Recognize.

Richard L. Plepler – Chief Executive Officer, Eden Productions.

Ruth Porat – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet and Google.L.

Rafael Reif - President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Frances Fragos Townsend - Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Activision Blizzard.

Tracey T. Travis – Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Estée Lauder Companies.

Margaret Warner – Practitioner in Residence, School of International Service, American University, previously reported for PBS NewsHour and The Wall Street Journal.

Daniel Yergin – Vice Chairman, IHS Markit.

Fareed Zakaria – 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 1992–2000.