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. The leadership of the organization has since focused on returning to "our roots as a group of countries sharing common values and a commitment to the rule of law,open economies and societies,and democratic principles".
Allen Welsh Dulles was an American lawyer who was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI),and its longest serving director. 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.
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.
The United Arab Emirates has quite a close and friendly relationship with the US,being described as the United States' best counter-terrorism ally in the Gulf by Richard A. Clarke,the U.S. national security advisor and counter-terrorism expert. In terms of defense,the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces has been nicknamed "Little Sparta" by United States Armed Forces generals and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis for its active role against extremists in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates also hosts the only United States border preclearance in the Middle East. Both countries are members of the I2U2 Group,which was established in 2021.
Thomas Edward Donilon is an American lawyer,business executive,and former government official who served as the 22nd National Security Advisor in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2013. Donilon also worked in the Carter and Clinton administrations. He is now Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute,the firm's global think tank.
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.
Mary Beth Long is an American foreign policy expert,entrepreneur,and former U.S. Government official. From 2007 to 2009,Long served as the first woman confirmed by the U.S. Senate as an Assistant Secretary of Defense,and as such,was the first female civilian four-star military equivalent in the history of the Pentagon. She led the International Security Affairs (ISA) office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense responsible for policy for the Middle East,Europe,and Africa. She was also the first woman ever to be appointed as Chair of NATO's High Level Group (HLG),the highest-level responsible for NATO's nuclear policy and reporting directly to the Secretary General of NATO.
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.
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.
Colin Hackett Kahl is an American political scientist who served as under secretary of defense for policy in the Biden administration from April 28,2021,to July 17,2023. Previously,he served as national security advisor to the vice president under then-Vice President Joe Biden (2014–2017). After the Obama administration,Kahl served as a Steven C. Házy Senior Fellow at Stanford University.
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.
