COUNCIL^ FOREIGN RELATIONS 200Annual Report 8^^"^ Annual Report July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008 Council on Foreign Relations 58 East 68th Street New York, NY 10065 tel 212.434.9400 fax 212.434.9800 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 tel 202.509.8400 fax 202.509.8490 www.cfr.org [email protected] Officers and Directors, 2008–2009 OFFICERS DIRectoRS Carla A. Hills Suzanne E. Helm Term Expiring 2009 Term Expiring 2010 Term Expiring 2011 Co-Chairman Vice President, Development Madeleine K. Albright Peter Ackerman Henry S. Bienen Robert E. Rubin Kay King Richard N. Foster Charlene Barshefsky Ann M. Fudge Co-Chairman Vice President, Washington Program Maurice R. Greenberg Stephen W. Bosworth Richard C. Holbrooke Richard E. Salomon L. Camille Massey Henry R. Kravis Tom Brokaw Colin L. Powell Vice Chairman Vice President, Membership, Joseph S. Nye Jr. Frank J. Caufield Joan E. Spero Richard N. Haass Fellowship, and Corporate Affairs James W. Owens Ronald L. Olson Vin Weber President Gary Samore Fareed Zakaria David M. Rubenstein Christine Todd Whitman Janice L. Murray Vice President, Director of Studies, Maurice R. Greenberg Chair Senior Vice President, Treasurer, Term Expiring 2012 Term Expiring 2013 Richard N. Haass and Chief Operating Officer Lisa Shields ex officio David Kellogg Vice President, Communications Fouad Ajami Alan S. Blinder Senior Vice President and Publisher and Marketing Sylvia Mathews Burwell J. Tomilson Hill Kenneth M. Duberstein Alberto Ibargüen Nancy D. Bodurtha Lilita V. Gusts Secretary Stephen Friedman Shirley Ann Jackson Vice President, Meetings Carla A. Hills George E. Rupp Irina A. Faskianos Jami Miscik Richard E. Salomon Vice President, National Program Robert E. Rubin Anne-Marie Slaughter and Outreach OFFICERS AND DIRectoRS, EMERitUS & HonoRARY Leslie H. Gelb Peter G. Peterson President Emeritus Chairman Emeritus Maurice R. Greenberg David Rockefeller Honorary Vice Chairman Honorary Chairman Charles McC. Mathias Jr. Robert A. Scalapino Director Emeritus Director Emeritus Note: This list of Officers and Directors is current as of July 1, 2008. A historical roster of Directors and Officers can be found on pages 78–79. Contents 4 Mission Statement 54 Communications and Marketing 8 Letter from the Co-Chairs 56 International Affairs Fellowship Program 10 President's Message 57 Endowed and Named Chairs, Fellowships, and Lectureships 16 Foreign Affairs 60 Development 18 Special Initiatives 71 Committees of the Board 24 David Rockefeller Studies Program 72 2008 Board Election 30 Publications 73 International Advisory Board 32 New York Meetings Program 74 By-Laws of the Council 36 Washington Program 76 Rules, Guidelines, and Practices 40 National Program 78 Historical Roster of Directors and Officers 44 Corporate Program 80 Financial Statements 48 Term Member Program 90 Staff 50 Outreach Program 93 Membership 52 CFR.org 95 Membership Roster Mission Statement The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. Founded in 1921, the Council takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. The Council carries out its mission by – maintaining a diverse membership, with special programs to promote interest and develop expertise in the next generation of foreign policy leaders; – convening meetings at its headquarters in New York and in Washington, DC, and other cities where senior government officials, members of Congress, global leaders, and prominent thinkers come together with Council members to discuss and debate major international issues; – supporting a Studies Program that fosters indepen- dent research, enabling Council scholars to produce articles, reports, and books and hold roundtables that analyze foreign policy issues and make concrete policy recommendations; – publishing Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy; – sponsoring Independent Task Forces that produce reports with both findings and policy prescriptions on the most important foreign policy topics; and – providing up-to-date information and analysis about world events and American foreign policy on its website, CFR.org. 4 At the Council Pakistan isn’t an ordinary country, and it’s not facing an ordinary situation now. We have two different fault lines. We have one fault line between dictatorship and democracy, and we have a second between the forces of moderation and the forces of extremism. — Benazir Bhutto (8/15/07) Former Prime Minister of Pakistan I don’t think we should fear sovereign wealth funds any more than we should fear any invest- ment into the United States that is done on commercial grounds. — Robert M. Kimmitt (1/28/08) Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury We responded to the potential threat of a nuclear weapon eliminating civilization as we know it. [In climate change] we’re staring at another kind of weapon—man-made, likewise, and uncon- trolled at this moment—that has the ability to change life as we know it on this Earth. —John Kerry (10/29/07) U.S. Senator (D-MA) Our engagement in Lebanon is very serious and we have more than 2,500 soldiers there. At the same time, our military presence is not enough to give a solution to the problem of an independent and stable Lebanon. We are convinced that it’s necessary to involve Syria in discussions. — Giorgio Napolitano (12/13/07) President of Italy 5 Our neighbors [in Latin America] realize that the paradigm of develop- ment has changed, that development in the region cannot come solely from within, that it must come from com- peting successfully in global markets and using democratic institutions to expand opportunity to the poor and to the vulnerable. — Condoleezza Rice (10/9/07) U.S. Secretary of State My government has a position that We believe sharia is only for Muslims. peace does not come with a single If you are not a Muslim, you have declaration, and peace does not exist nothing to do with sharia. You can live all of a sudden just with a single signa- peacefully in any part of the country, ture. For peace we need confidence- and sharia will not catch up with you. building measures. — Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III (11/19/07) —Song Min-soon (9/26/07) Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea Lowering interest rates to keep the You cannot coerce nations into democ- economy on an even keel when adverse racy. You can’t intimidate nations into financial-market developments occur democracy or force them into democ- will reduce the penalty incurred by those racy or fight them into democracy. Every who exercise poor judgment. country in the world finds its own level — Donald L. Kohn (11/28/07) of entry, its own center of gravity. Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, — Chuck Hagel (11/28/07) Federal Reserve System U.S. Senator (R-NE) The information age means you don’t For more than four years, it was easy need training camps to become a terror- to say: “[Iraq] is an American prob- ist; all you need is an Internet connec- lem.” That is not true because this is our tion. The Web is terrorism’s new frontier, problem. We have to do something. offering both persuasive inspiration and Otherwise it will be more than a disaster— practical instruction. a real catastrophe. — Robert S. Mueller III (9/28/07) — Bernard Kouchner (9/25/07) Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, France 6 The progress on gender parity [in the UN] is an area where we are really critically challenged, because statistics have shown that the higher you go, the fewer women there are. The goals are there. The resolutions are there. The challenge is in really taking concrete action to ensure that we have women there and we retain them. — Asha-Rose Migiro (3/11/08) Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations Intelligence is sometimes described as analogous to putting the pieces of a puzzle together, except we hardly ever get to see the picture on top of the box. The individuals that we detain pro- vide us with a bunch of new puzzle pieces, but most important, very often they have seen the picture on top of the box. — Michael V. Hayden (9/7/07) Director, Central Intelligence Agency We know that there are 1.5 billion hectares of the world pro- ducing food. But there are 2.7 billion hectares that lie idle, and 90 percent of that is in Latin America and Africa, and none of it is titled. And if it is not titled, how is it going to get the credit that is necessary to start clearing the rocks, getting the channels into place, and getting the irrigation? —Hernando de Soto (6/4/08) President, Institute of Liberty and Democracy, Peru The Iraqi authorities and the United States must urgently take concrete measures beyond simply paying lip service to the compact with the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party]. The bloodshed each day at the expense of innocent lives as a result of this terror intensifies the collective trauma and exhausts the patience of the Turkish public, limiting the political choices of our government. — Recep Tayyip Erdog˘an (9/27/07) Prime Minister of Turkey At the Council 7 Letter from the Co-Chairs Co-Chairman Carla A. Hills Co-Chairman Robert E. Rubin We are pleased to be writing one year after becoming co- National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, Senators Joe chairs of the Board of Directors. It was a year with many Biden and Chuck Hagel, President Evo Morales of Bolivia, highlights for the Council and for us.