Strategic Counselor

• Dr. Henry A. Kissinger – Founder, Kissinger Associates, Inc.; former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor.

Commissioners

• Mr. James Arroyo OBE – Director, Ditchley Foundation; former senior leader in digital transformation in foreign policy and national security for the British Government.
• Mr. Joel Bell – Founding Chairman and President, Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership.
• Mr. Carl Bildt – Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations; WHO's Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT Accelerator); former Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden; mediator in the Yugoslav wars; United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Balkans.
• Ambassador Dr. Robert Blackwill – Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council of Foreign Relations; former U.S. Ambassador to India; former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning.
• Ambassador Alexander Chalyi – President, Grant Thornton Ukraine, former First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, former Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine.
• Ambassador Chan Heng Chee – Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore; member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights; Global Co-Chair Asia Society; former Ambassador to the United States.
• Ambassador Nabil Fahmy – Founder of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) at The American University in Cairo (AUC); former Foreign Minister of Egypt; Former Ambassador to the U.S and Japan; former chairman of the UN Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, and former Vice Chairman of the UN General Assembly’s first committee dealing with disarmament and international security.
• Mr. Fu Chengyu – Former Chairman and CEO of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec); former CEO of Chinese Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).
• Ambassador Fu Ying – Vice-Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee, National People's Congress; former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines, Australia, and the UK
• Dr. Michael Fullilove – Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, Australia.
• Dr. Yoichi Funabashi – Japanese journalist and co-founder and Chairman of Asia Pacific Institute, an independent Tokyo-based think tank; member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Advisory Council.
• Ms. Rebeca Grynspan – Secretary General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); former Secretary General, Iberio-American Secretariat General (SEGIB); former Vice President of Costa Rica.
• Dr. Stephen J. Hadley – Principal, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC international strategic consulting firm; Executive Vice Chair of Board of Directors, Atlantic Council; former U.S. National Security Advisor.
• Dr. John Holdren – Research Professor, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; former Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
• Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger – President of the Foundation Council of the Munich Security Conference (MSC); former Chairman, MSC; Senior Professor for Security Policy and Diplomatic Practice at the Hertie School, Berlin; former German Ambassador to the U.S. and the UK; former Deputy Foreign Minister.
• Dr. Andrey Kortunov – Academic Director, Russian International Affairs Council.
• Ambassador Shivshankar Menon – Chair, Centre for China Studies at Ashoka University; former Indian National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary; former High Commissioner to Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and Ambassador to China, Israel.
• Dr. Thierry de Montbrial – Founder and Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), and founder and Chairman of the World Policy Conference (WPC).
• Dr. Marty Natalegawa – Member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament, the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation; former Indonesian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland, Director General for ASEAN Cooperation, and UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises.
• Ambassador Thomas Pickering – Former U.S. Under Secretary of State; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and Jordan.
• Dr. Adam Posen – President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE).
• Lord Charles Powell – Independent member of the UK House of Lord and member of the National Security Strategy Committee; former Private Secretary and Advisor on foreign affairs and defense to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Prime Minister John Major; former chairman of the China-Britain Business Council, the Singapore British Business Council, and the British Government's Asia Task Force.
• Dr. Eric Schmidt – Technologist, entrepreneur, philanthropist; co-founder Schmidt Futures; former CEO and Chairman, Google; former Executive Chairman of Alphabet; former Chair, U.S. Department of Defense Innovation Board; former Chair, U.S. National Security Commission for Artificial Intelligence.
• H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Former President of Liberia; Nobel Prize Laureate; founder, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women & Development; member, WHO Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness & Response; former Chair, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
• Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter – President and CEO and New America think tank; former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. Department of State under U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; former Dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
• Dr. Lawrence Summers – President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; 71st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; former Director of the National Economic Council.
• Dr. Wang Jisi – President of the School of International Studies at Peking University; former member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China’s Foreign Ministry.
• Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin – Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative; former Executive Director, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University; retired Israeli Air Force Major General and Deputy Commander of the IAF; former chief of Military Intelligence for Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and defense attaché to the United States.
• Dr. Ernesto Zedillo – Director, Center for Study for Globalization at Yale University; former President of Mexico; member of The Elders and Group of 30.