Adel al-Jubeir is a Saudi diplomat serving as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs since 2018. He also serves as a Member of the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia and has been the Climate Affairs Envoy since 2022. Notably,he is the second non-royal to hold the office of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs,succeeding Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel. Previously,al-Jubeir was the Saudi Ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2015 and a foreign policy advisor to King Abdullah.
Peter Richard Orszag is an American business executive and former government official. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Lazard. Announced as Lazard’s incoming CEO on May 26,2023,he assumed the role on October 1,2023,also joining the board.
Jacob Joseph Lew is an American attorney and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Israel. He was the seventy-sixth United States secretary of the treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,he also served as the twenty-fifth White House chief of staff from 2012 to 2013 and as director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Clinton administration and Obama administration.
Donald E. Booth is an American diplomat who is serving as the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan. Between August 2013 and January 2017,he was the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan. Prior to his appointments as special envoy,Booth served as the Ambassador of the United States to Liberia,Zambia,and Ethiopia.
Kristie Anne Kenney is an American former senior diplomat who served as the 32nd Counselor of the United States Department of State from 2016 to 2017. She is a recipient of the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award and held the nation's highest diplomatic rank of Career Ambassador in the United States Foreign Service. She served as the Department of State Transition Coordinator for the 2016–17 transition.
Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles is a British former diplomat. He was the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009–2010. After leaving the Foreign Office,he worked briefly for BAE Systems as international business development director. He left BAE Systems in 2013 and is now a senior adviser to the group chairman and the group chief executive of HSBC. He is also president of the Jane Austen Society.
Charles Hammerman Rivkin is an American media executive and former United States diplomat who is chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
Michael Braverman Goodman Froman is an American lawyer who is the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Froman served as the U.S. Trade Representative from 2013 to 2017. He was Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs,a position held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that position he served as the United States sherpa to the G7,G8,and G20 summits of economic powers. On May 2,2013,President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador Ron Kirk as the U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed on June 19,2013.
David Cary Jacobson is an American lawyer who served as the 29th United States Ambassador to Canada.
John Victor Roos is an American businessman,attorney,and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Japan from 2009 to 2013. He is the Founding Partner of Geodesic Capital. Before accepting the ambassadorship from President Barack Obama,Roos was the CEO of Silicon Valley–based law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati.
William Carlton Eacho III is the former United States Ambassador to Austria. Eacho was nominated by President Barack Obama in June 2009. He was confirmed by the US Senate and sworn in during August 2009. He succeeded David F. Girard-diCarlo as ambassador in 2009 and was succeeded by Alexa Wesner in September 2013. Eacho serves as Chairman of the Board at IFES,The International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Eacho is a co-founder and CEO of The Partnership For Responsible Growth,a bipartisan organization advocating for US legislation for a price on carbon emissions to counter the climate change threat. Eacho also serves as Board Chair at Friends of Acadia From 2014 through 2020,Eacho was a Visiting Professor of the Practice at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. From 2013 to 2018,Ambassador Eacho was also affiliated with the Center for Transatlantic Relations as a Distinguished Fellow,as well as visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,with an expertise in global energy,environment,and security issues. He formerly served on the Energy and Security Task Force of the International Peace Institute.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
Harry Keels Thomas Jr. is an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh,the Philippines,and Zimbabwe.
South Sudan–United States relations are the bilateral relations between the Republic of South Sudan and the United States of America.
Ellen Spencer Susman is an American journalist,philanthropist,political appointee and television producer. She was nominated by Barack Obama in September 2011 to serve as a member of his Advisory Committee on the Arts for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She served from 2013 to 2016 as the director of the US Department of State Art in Embassies Program,a public-private partnership of American and international artists,collectors,galleries,foundations,museums and universities.
James Walter Brewster Jr.,commonly known as Wally Brewster,served as the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate of the United States on November 14,2013. Brewster was the first person in a same-sex marriage to represent the United States at the ambassadorial level in the Americas. He left office on January 20,2017. Ambassador Brewster currently serves as a Principal for Insignias Global,an international political and brand advisory firm. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Atlantic Council,Parliamentarians for Global Action and the National Democratic institute.
Bruce Alan Heyman is an American businessman,author,and former diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Canada from 2014 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.
Jane Dorothy Hartley is an American businesswoman and diplomat,serving as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom since 2022 under the Biden administration. She previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco from 2014 to 2017 during the Obama administration.
Cindy S. Moelis currently serves as the president of the Pritzker Traubert Foundation and is the former director of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships.
The Foreign Affairs Policy Board is an advisory board that provides independent advice and opinion to the secretary of state,the deputy secretary of state,and the director of policy planning on matters concerning U.S. foreign policy. The board reviews and assesses global threats and opportunities,trends that implicate core national security interests,tools and capacities of the civilian foreign affairs agencies,and priorities and strategic frameworks for U.S. foreign policy. The board meets in a plenary session several times a year at the U.S. Department of State in the Harry S. Truman Building.
