The Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan,Western Europe and North America. It was founded in July 1973 principally by American banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller,an internationalist who sought to address the challenges posed by the growing economic and political interdependence between the U.S. and its allies in North America,Western Europe,and Japan.
Allen Welsh Dulles was an American lawyer who was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI),and its longest serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War,he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état,the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état,the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program,the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. As a result of the failed invasion of Cuba,Dulles was fired by President John F. Kennedy.
Richard Vincent Allen is a former United States National Security Advisor serving President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982. In 1977,prior to Reagan's presidential election in November 1980,he served as Reagan's chief foreign policy advisor. Since 1983,he has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a past member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee.
William Anthony Kirsopp Lake is an American diplomat and political advisor who served as the 17th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997 and as the sixth Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017.
William Putnam Bundy was an American attorney and analyst with the CIA. Bundy served as a foreign affairs advisor to both presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had key roles in planning the Vietnam War,serving as deputy to Paul Nitze at Defense under Kennedy and as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs under Johnson.
Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. is an American political scientist. He and Robert Keohane co-founded the international relations theory of neoliberalism,which they developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane,he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence. They also explored transnational relations and world politics in an edited volume in the 1970s. More recently,he pioneered the theory of soft power. His notion of "smart power" became popular with the use of this phrase by members of the Clinton Administration and the Obama Administration.
Winston Lord is a retired American diplomat. As Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor and then as Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State,Lord was a close adviser to Henry A. Kissinger and was instrumental in bringing about the renormalization of U.S.-China relations in the 1970s.
Juleanna Ruth Glover is an American corporate public affairs consultant,entrepreneur,former Republican lobbyist,and political strategist. She is founder and CEO of Ridgely Walsh,a public and governmental affairs agency that advises Silicon Valley companies,including Google,Snap,Oracle,eBay,First Solar,Uber,and SpaceX.
Aaron Louis Friedberg is an American political scientist. He served from 2003 to 2005 in the office of the Vice President of the United States as deputy assistant for national-security affairs and director of policy planning.
Herbert Raymond McMaster is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 25th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018. He is also known for his roles in the Gulf War,Operation Enduring Freedom,and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Peter Gourevitch is a political scientist who is known for his research in international relations and comparative politics. He is professor emeritus of political science at the University of California,San Diego.
Dialogic Group,Inc.,formerly Dialogic Corporation,was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Parsippany,New Jersey,United States. Prior to its acquisition by Enghouse Systems of Ontario in 2020,it had operations in over 25 countries. Dialogic provided a cloud-optimized communications technology for real-time communications media,applications,and infrastructure to service providers,enterprises,and developers.
Antony John Blinken is an American lawyer and diplomat currently serving as the 71st United States secretary of state. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. Blinken was previously national security advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2013.
Teneo is a public relations and advisory company. The company was founded in June 2011 by Declan Kelly,Paul Keary,and Doug Band,and currently has more than 1,450 employees located in 40 offices. In 2019,Teneo sold a majority stake to CVC Capital Partners,at a total valuation of around $700 million. Today the company is led by Chairwoman Ursula Burns and CEO Paul Keary.
Paul Thomas Haenle is an American analyst and China specialist currently serving as Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Douglas L. Peterson is the president and chief executive officer of S&P Global,formerly McGraw Hill Financial. He became president and chief executive officer in November 2013. Peterson has served on S&P Global’s Board of Directors since July 2013. He originally joined the company as president of Standard &Poor's Ratings Services in 2011.
Declan Kelly is an Irish-American business executive,entrepreneur,and philanthropist. He is the founder,Chairman and CEO of The Consello Group,a specialized investing and financial services platform. Kelly is best known as the founder,former chairman and CEO of Teneo,an international consulting company based in New York City.
Puneet Talwar is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Morocco. He previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2014 to November 2015. Talwar served as a top Middle East advisor to Barack Obama and played a central role in the backchannel diplomacy that produced the Iran nuclear deal. Prior to working in the White House,he was a top advisor to then-Senator Joe Biden on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for twelve years.
Thomas J. Christensen is an American political scientist. He is the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations at the School of International and Public Affairs,Columbia University.
