The Goldman Sachs Group,Inc. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869,Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan in New York City,with regional headquarters in many international financial centers. Goldman Sachs is the second-largest investment bank in the world by revenue and is ranked 55th on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. In the Forbes Global 2000 of 2024,Goldman Sachs ranked 23rd. It is considered a systemically important financial institution by the Financial Stability Board.
Brent Scowcroft was a United States Air Force officer who was a two-time United States National Security Advisor,first under U.S. President Gerald Ford and then under George H. W. Bush. He served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He served as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005,and advised President Barack Obama on choosing his national security team.
The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. The school also maintains campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
Robert Bruce Zoellick is an American public official and lawyer who was the 11th president of the World Bank Group,a position he held from July 1,2007 to June 30,2012. He was previously chairman of international advisors at Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2007,United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2005 to 2006,and U.S. Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005. Prior to those posts,from 1985 to 2001 he served in a variety of capacities in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush,and the presidential campaign of George W. Bush,in addition to positions in various think tanks and academia.
Stephen Friedman is an American economist. He is a former chairman of the U.S. President's Intelligence Advisory Board and former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was nominated on October 27,2005,to replace Brent Scowcroft in the position.
Roger Charles Altman is an American investment banker,the founder and senior chairman of Evercore,and a former Democratic politician. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter administration from January 1977 until January 1981 and as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration from January 1993 until he resigned in August 1994,amid the Whitewater controversy.
Ashton Baldwin Carter was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science &International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
BRIC is a term describing the foreign investment strategies grouping acronym that stands for Brazil,Russia,India,and China. The separate BRICS organisation would go on to become a political and economic organization largely based on such grouping. The grouping has been rendered as "the BRICs","the BRIC countries","the BRIC economies",or alternatively as the "Big Four".
Dina Powell,also known as Dina Powell McCormick is an American financial executive,philanthropist,and political advisor,best known for having been the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to President Donald Trump.
Henry "Hank" Merritt Paulson Jr. is an American investment banker and financier who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009. Prior to his role in the Department of the Treasury,Paulson was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of major investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and international relations scholar who served as the United States ambassador to China from 2022 to 2025.
John Henry Bryan Jr. was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of Sara Lee Corporation from 1975 until 2001. He also was the philanthropic driving force behind the creation of Millennium Park in Chicago.
Otmar Issing is a German economist who served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2006 and concurrently as ECB chief economist. He developed the 'two-pillar' approach to monetary policy decision-making that the ECB has adopted. After leaving the executive board,Issing been serving as president of the Center for Financial Studies since 2006.
David Isaac Adelman is an American businessman,lawyer and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is the Managing Director and General Counsel of asset manager Krane Funds Advisors in New York. He is a Trustee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For more than a decade he has taught international relations as an adjunct professor at New York University.Adelman's official papers are part of the collection at the Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia. In 2016,in recognition of his public service the State of Georgia dedicated a bridge as the Ambassador David Adelman Bridge on State Highway 42. Adelman is a member of the Advisory Council of the Israel-Asia Center.
Jared Andrew Cohen is an American businessman and presidential historian serving as the President of Global Affairs and co-head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute at Goldman Sachs,which he joined in August 2022 as a Partner and member of the firm's Management Committee. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously,he was the founder and the CEO of Jigsaw. Prior to that,he served as a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff and as an advisor to Condoleezza Rice and later Hillary Clinton. Brought in by Condoleezza Rice as a member of the Policy Planning Staff,he was one of a few staffers that stayed under Hillary Clinton. In this capacity,he focused on counter-terrorism,counter-radicalization,Middle East/South Asia,Internet freedom,and fostering opposition in repressive countries.
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.
Timothy Franz Geithner is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009,following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014,he has served as president and chairman of Warburg Pincus,a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.
James Joseph Schiro was an American businessman who became CEO of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Zurich Financial Services and was a director of number of multinational companies including of PepsiCo,Philips and Goldman Sachs.
The Mortara Center for International Studies is an academic research center at Georgetown University in Washington,D.C. As part of Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,the Mortara Center organizes and co-sponsors lectures,seminars,and conferences and provides support for research and publications on international affairs. The Mortara Center was established through a gift from the Michael and Virginia Mortara Foundation.
James Joseph Shinn is an entrepreneur,scholar,and former U.S. government official.
