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Driving Climate Action with Direct Action

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On Friday, thousands of students around the world took to the streets, skipping school to demand climate action at more than 2000 events in 123 countries. Led by 16 year old Swedish student Greta Thunberg and in the US, 13 year old student Alexandria Villasenor, students demonstrated to demand leaders take action on climate change. Some question the utility of students skipping school and protesting. Will it have any impact? Is this worth the time lost in school? To gain some perspective, I think we need to turn to past conflicts. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” a popular reading for Aspen Institute leadership seminars, may offer some insight.

In the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King was arrested and thrown in the Birmingham city jail. While imprisoned, he heard about a group of clergymen who criticized his strategy of direct action as “unwise and untimely.” They argued that negotiation is better than direct action. However, the relevant point that Dr. King makes in response is that direct action, in fact, leads to negotiation. In his reply to the Alabama clergymen, Dr. King wrote:

You are exactly right in your call for negotiation. Indeed, this is the purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored… So, the purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

In this case, the combination of the announcement and attention (both positive and negative) around the Green New Deal, as well as the non-violent protests of the student strikers, has created a movement on climate action. Ignited, partially, by the recent release of the IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5˚ C, which warns of the need for immediate strengthened actions to avoid imminent perilous effects, many policymakers and leaders are heeding this call.

Since the rise of the climate strike and the Green New Deal, there have been a flurry of announcements on climate action. Former Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and former Assistant Secretary of Energy Andy Karsner released the Green Real Deal, which is focused on the deployment of clean energy technology.Instead of an industrial policy like the Green New Deal, it focuses on market solutionsto deploy new technology like batteries, wind and solar, as well as advanced nuclear and carbon capture technologies. Rep. Buddy Carter(R-GA) 4% LCV, who is a Republican member of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis said that, “We know that we’ve got to address climate change… Everything is on the table and everything has got to be addressed.” Meanwhile, Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) [LETS LOBBYIST HOLMSTED AND MARTELLA WRITE BILLS] and Joe Manchin (D–WV) stated in a joint op-ed that, “Resource development and environmental stewardship must move in tandem, which is why we are committed to putting forward bipartisan solutions to help address climate change.” Similarly, Republican former governor of Ohio John Kasich said, “We’ve finally reached a tipping point… most of our allies around the world are convinced that climate change is happening and that strong, concerted actions are needed to minimize its effects.”

But perhaps the most important statement in recent days is from António Guterres, the United Nation’s Secretary-General, who has also served as prime minister of Portugal. Guterres specifically called out the importance of the climate strike and asked world leaders to come to the UN Climate Summit in New York in September with plans to reduce to net-zero by 2050. Not all leaders will do this – it’s nearly certain President Trump will not – but action begets action. Having world leaders ratchet up their Paris climate commitments will spur more innovation and spending on clean energy technologies. It will spur new financial mechanisms, increased investments from individuals and from governments, and it will speed the deployment of clean technology. Whether we as a planet actually achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 will remain unknown, but this can set a course that can allow us to accomplish this seemingly impossible feat.

Martin Luther King Jr., sitting in a jail cell in 1963, was right. Direct action can help to bring reluctant parties to the negotiation table. Today’s climate leaders like Greta Thunberg, Alexandria Villasenor, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others are walking in Dr. King’s shoes. Politicians, corporate leaders, and experts are pushing the conversation from a backburner issue to a crisis point that has opened the door to negotiation. Once at the table we will quickly realize that we have all the tools needed to achieve deep decarbonization.

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The group is funded by foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundationand the Ford Foundation.

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In 2013: The executive director was David M. Rowe. The co-chairs were: Joseph Nye, Brent Scowcroft.

Other members were Graham Allison, Richard Armitage, Dick Cheney, David Gergen, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, William Webster, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, Robert Zoellick, Madeleine Albright, Eliot Cohen, John Deutch, Dianne Feinstein, Robert Gates, Richard Haass, Chuck Hagel, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Sam Nunn, Thomas O'Gara, John Podesta, Strobe Talbott, William Perry, Dov Zakheim, Philip Zelikow.

Aspen Security Forum

Speakers at the Aspen Security Forum:^[1]: Michael Chertoff, Stephen Hadley, Dennis Blair, Michael Hayden, Cofer Black, Gilles de Kerchove, Robert Gallucci, Richard Ben-Veniste, Brian Michael Jenkins, Janet Napolitano, David Cohen, John Negroponte, Raymond Kelly. The moderators were Wolf Blitzer, John King, Michael Isikoff, and Maurice Sonnenberg is also involved.

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Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit think tank founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.^[2] The organization is a nonpartisan forum for values-based leadership and the exchange of ideas. The Institute and its international partners promote the pursuit of common ground and deeper understanding in a nonpartisan and nonideological setting through regular seminars, policy programs, conferences, and leadership development initiatives. The institute is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, and has campuses in Aspen, Colorado (its original home), and near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay at the Wye River in Maryland. It has partner Aspen Institutes in Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Paris, Lyon, Tokyo, New Delhi, Prague, Bucharest, Mexico City, and Kiev, as well as leadership initiatives in the United States and on the African continent, India, and Central America.

The Aspen Institute is largely funded by foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, by seminar fees, and by individual donations. Its board of trustees includes leaders from politics, government, business and academia who also contribute to its support.

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The Institute was largely the creation of Walter Paepcke, a Chicago businessman who had become inspired by the Great Books program of Mortimer Adler at the University of Chicago.^[3] In 1945, Paepcke visited Bauhaus artist and architect Herbert Bayer, AIA, who had designed and built a Bauhaus-inspired minimalist home outside the decaying former mining town of Aspen, in the Roaring Fork Valley. Paepcke and Bayer envisioned a place where artists, leaders, thinkers, and musicians could gather. Shortly thereafter, while passing through Aspen on a hunting expedition, oil industry maverick Robert O. Anderson (soon to be founder and CEO of Atlantic Richfield) met with Bayer and shared in Paepcke's and Bayer's vision. In 1949, Paepcke organized a 20-day international celebration for the 200th birthday of German poet and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The celebration attracted over 2,000 attendees, including Albert Schweitzer, José Ortega y Gasset, Thornton Wilder, and Arthur Rubinstein.^[4]

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In 1949, Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute; and later the Aspen Music Festival and eventually (with Bayer and Anderson) the International Design Conference at Aspen(IDCA).^[5] Paepcke sought a forum "where the human spirit can flourish", especially amid the whirlwind and chaos of modernization. He hoped that the Institute could help business leaders recapture what he called "eternal verities": the values that guided them intellectually, ethically, and spiritually as they led their companies. Inspired by philosopher Mortimer Adler's Great Books seminar at the University of Chicago, Paepcke worked with Anderson to create the Aspen Institute Executive Seminar.^[6] In 1951, the Institute sponsored a national photography conference attended by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Berenice Abbott, and other notables.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Institute added organizations, programs, and conferences, including the Aspen Center for Physics, the Aspen Strategy Group, Communications and Society Program and other programs that concentrated on education, communications, justice, Asian thought, science, technology, the environment, and international affairs.

In 1979, through a donation by Corning Glass industrialist and philanthropist Arthur A. Houghton Jr. the Institute acquired a 1,000-acre (4 km²) campus on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, known today as the Wye River Conference Centers.^[7]

In 2005, it held the first Aspen Ideas Festival, featuring leading minds from around the world sharing and speaking on global issues. The Institute, along with The Atlantic, hosts the festival annually. It has trained philanthropists such as Carrie Morgridge.^[8]

Since 2013,^[9] the Aspen Institute together with U.S. magazine The Atlantic and Bloomberg Philanthropies has participated in organizing the annual CityLab event, a summit dedicated to develop strategies for the challenges of urbanization in today's cities.^[10]

Walter Isaacson was the president and CEO of Aspen Institute from 2003 to June 2018. Isaacson announced in March 2017 that he would step down as president and CEO at the end of the year.^[11] On November 30, 2017, Daniel Porterfield was announced as his successor. Porterfield succeeded Isaacson on June 1, 2018.^[12]

Porterfield (born August 19, 1961) is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, an international educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., and Aspen, Colorado. Porterfield previously served as the 15th president of Franklin & Marshall College, senior vice president for strategic development at Georgetown University, and senior aide to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.

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annd Giridharadas was surprised this September when Google invited him to their offices, given his outspoken criticism of tech giants. “I applaud whoever it was who invited me or did not read my book,” Giridharadas said to a few tepid laughs.

Afflicting the comfortable is a talent honed by Giridharadas, and his talk about breaking up monopolistic companies like Google and checking the power of its elite executives – while speaking at Google – is only one recent example.

A former McKinsey consultant-turned New York Times columnist, Giridharadas is now a bestselling author. His recent book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, torches the privileged circles he has moved in much of his adult life, and is rooted in insider knowledge.

The book stems from a speech he was asked to give several years ago to the Aspen Institute, a thinktank that organizes exclusive ideas conferences for the wealthy and powerful, as part of a program designed to raise up a “new breed of leaders” and solve “the world’s most intractable problems”. Instead he delivered an electrifying critique, arguing the “change makers” and “thought leaders” in America’s winners-take-all economy – once again, the very people he was speaking to – are less helping the world through their various philanthropic efforts than propping up the broken system that made them.[city arts: 20 ceos zzz, so include a jrnlsit and couple other , he was "indian spicwe; he says they no longer have outsiders]

What billionaires want: the secret influence of America’s 100 richest

Giridharadas first gained access to the high-flying group he censures in 2011 when he was selected as part of a group of distinguished fellows for the Aspen Institute. Giridharadas was a strange pick, as not only the youngest member at 29, but also the sole journalist in a group composed largely of rising stars in the business world (the 2018 fellows group is composed almost entirely of CEOs).

Still, he made fast friends with his Aspen compatriots, and even officiated one of their weddings. Soon he found himself flying around in their private jets and mingling with them in ostentatious mansions.

Tony Blair at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The Aspen Institute organizes exclusive ideas conferences for the wealthy and powerful.

Tony Blair at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The Aspen Institute organizes exclusive ideas conferences for the wealthy and powerful. Photograph: Zuma/Rex

The unstated thesis behind their being chosen by Aspen was clear: that the people best-equipped to protect the interests of the poor are the rich and rich adjacent.

Giridharadas was bothered by it, and particularly by how the program seemed to encourage elite participants from tech giants and hedge funds to start philanthropic side-hustles doubling as vanity projects, rather than find ways to do less harm in their day jobs. (At a Goldman Sachs-sponsored lunch put on at a fellowship reunion, for instance, the corporate giant’s role in the 2008 financial crisis went unmentioned as its do-gooding was praised.)

And so, given an opportunity to speak at an Aspen gathering in 2015, Giridharadas behaved like the journalist he is. Instead of presenting what was expected, he called things as he saw them. “I love this community, and I fear for all of us – myself very much included – that we may not be as virtuous as we think we are, that history may not be as kind to us as we hope it will, that in the final analysis our role in the inequities of our age may not be remembered well,” he said, to an aghast audience that included Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state, and prominent writers like himself.

The book that grew out of that moment is unsparing in its criticism and sometimes even strident. Giridharadas mercilessly mocks the wealthy who would change everything but the rules that enabled and protect their status, and ridicules their coinage of notions like “win-win”, the idea that there’s no tension between doing well for yourself and doing good for others.

The bad behavior of the richest: what I learned from wealth managers

Perhaps no one better emulates the failure of the “win-win” ethos than the Sackler family, Giridharadas writes. Their pharmaceutical empire helped make them one of America’s wealthiest and most philanthropic families, with wings of universities and concert halls named after them – including an entire Smithsonian museum. But they’ve also profited off America’s opioid crisis, which the US Department of Justice and others have accused them of fueling through their aggressive and misleading marketing of the widely used drug OxyContin. Their company agreed to pay $635m in fines in 2007, a pittance compared with how lucrative the drug had been. Now, in precisely the kind of the “win-win” model that Giridharadas reviles, the family’s patriarch, Richard Sackler, is working to fight the opioid epidemic – and make money doing it – by patenting a new drug to help wean people off opioids.

Giridharadas also calls special attention to the Clinton Global Initiative, Bill Clinton’s recently defunct annual gathering that extracted charitable commitments from corporations and plutocrats in exchange for some good PR and image laundering. “They fly here because they see investment opportunities; they see branding opportunities,” Giridharadas quotes Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, saying of the conference: “It’s this idea that you can support a health initiative in Nigeria or the Niger Delta to reduce disease or diarrhea or whatever, and you can also make an investment in a company that is a polluter in the Niger Delta.”

And yet Giridharadas wants to do more than just shame people – he wants to have a conversation, and with people whom he considers his peers. “Many of my friends are drunk on dangerous bullshit. However, they’re still my friends,” he says.

The Sackler’s pharmaceutical empire helped make them one of America’s wealthiest and most philanthropic families. They also profited off of America’s opioid crisis.

The Sackler’s pharmaceutical empire helped make them one of America’s wealthiest and most philanthropic families. They also profited off of America’s opioid crisis. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images

It’s been called a traitor-to-its-class kind of book, and though it wasn’t written per se for the elites it excoriates, it does appear to have their attention. The 2015 speech was first written up by David Brooks, a New York Times columnist who was in attendance and is no stranger to the ideas circuit Giridharadas excoriates. And when the book first came out, renowned economist Joseph Stiglitz took to the pages of the Times to urge philanthropic plutocrats to “read a copy of this book while in the Hamptons this summer”.

It has also found deeper resonance in a country still searching for explanations of the last presidential election. “It’s hard for me to think of anything better designed to burn down this age of business fundamentalism, this age of market worship than the flamboyant failure of the faux billionaire, faux savior Donald Trump,” Giridharadas says.

Why are so few US politicians from the working class?

Trump’s campaign was boosted by the same logic by which America’s wealthy “saviors” deem themselves fit to lead, he argues: that their familiarity with and even greedy exploitation of America’s financial and political systems somehow makes them uniquely qualified to fix them.

Giridharadas admits he’s long been repelled by the notion that, for instance, the best course of action for young would-be world savers is to get an MBA. And his book rails against what he sees as a central myth that’s taken hold in American culture: that training at Goldman Sachs or a stint at McKinsey is somehow essential, or even particularly relevant, to making good policy or a meaningful understanding of the world.

He chafes at the quick, self-aggrandizing solutions hawked by the people who speak at ideas conferences. And so, perhaps, it follows that when pressed for solutions, he bristles. “This is a book about tearing down dogma,” he says. “It’s trying to convince you that other people’s unfounded dogma have hijacked the discourse,” he adds. “I don’t have a substitute dogma to replace this dogma with.”

In a way his resistance makes sense. He doesn’t want to be the anti-thought leader leading the charge against thought leading, after all. And he’s all for reform, but only once the problem has been fully considered, which, by the way, he thinks it almost never is.

“It’s hard for me to think of anything better designed to burn down this age of business fundamentalism, this age of market worship than the flamboyant failure of the faux billionaire, faux savior Donald Trump,” Giridharadas says.

‘It’s hard for me to think of anything better designed to burn down this age of business fundamentalism, this age of market worship than the flamboyant failure of the faux billionaire, faux savior Donald Trump,’ Giridharadas says. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

“It’s the winners who want these solutions,” he says, to mask their desire for premature absolution. “I think the desire for solutions and takeaways itself has an agenda,” he adds. “I think takeaway culture is a big part of why we’re here: because we’re not willing to think any more and understand the complexity of these problems, and sit with them.”

Is America an oligarchy dominated by billionaires?

He sounds some hopeful notes, provocatively quoting the billionaire Vinod Khosla as saying “capitalism exists by permission of democracy”. It’s a way, perhaps, to suggest that real change requires politics and collective action, something Giridharadas has argued previously in the pages of the Times. “We ended slavery by acting together,” he tells me now. “We defeated fascism together. We electrified rural America together. We got kids out of factories and antifreeze out of medicine acting together.”

In addition he thinks Aspen would do well to spend its time listening to more of society’s losers, and fewer winners. “The powerful are very good at disseminating their own bullshit,” he says. “They don’t need the intellectual reputation laundering of ideas festivals to make their heavily marketed bullshit smell even sweeter.”

“I sincerely believe,” he says, “that had more of the institutions of this country – and particularly those involved in thinking and ideas, not just conferences but all kinds of things – been more skeptical of elite fantasies and more mindful of what was actually going on in other people’s lives in this country, I think it’s very possible we wouldn’t have orange Mussolini in the White House.”

The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (AIHS) describes itself as an "international non-profit organization dedicated to informed dialogue and inquiry on issues of global concern."

Founded in 1950 by Walter Paepeke, chair of the Container Corporation, AIHS seeks to bring together leading citizens from private and public sectors of the U. S. and abroad to consider interrelated issues of the human mind and spirit in contemporary society. The group believes that immersion in the Humanist tradition can make participants in its program better decision makers. It Institute holds seminars primarily for business executives "for reflection, rediscovery of personal values, and examination of contemporary issues in the company of some of the best minds in the world" and gives cross-cultural training "to go beyond immediate business issues to the underlying questions faced in all cultures."

The Aspen Institute owns the 1100-acre Wye River Conference Center in Maryland, a park-like retreat that has served as host to a number of historically significant events, including Middle East peace negotiations. It also served as a temporary home to 5-year-old Elián Gonzalez in 2000 during the political controversy in the United States during the custody battle between his Cuban father and his Miami relatives. This in turn made AIHS a target for right-wing conspiracy theorists, who labeled it a "training center for a global army of psycho-social change agents."[1]

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AIHS also sponsors the Aspen Strategy Group, a policy program concentrating on strategic relations and arms control issues. The Aspen Strategy Group is currently co-chaired by Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr. and Brent Scowcroft.

Aspen Strategy Group Members

Joesph S. Nye, Jr. - (Group Chairmen)

Brent Scowcroft - (Group Chairmen)

Kurt M. Campbell - Director

Willow Darsie - Deputy Director

Madeleine Albright

Richard Armitage

Zoe Baird

Stephen Biegun

Lael Brainard

Ashton B. Carter

Eliot A. Cohen

Susan Collins

Richard Danzig

John M. Deutch

Thomas E. Donilon

Richard A. Falkenrath

Dianne Feinstein

Michele A. Flournoy

Richard Haass

Chuck Hagel

Jane Harman

Robert Kagan

Nicholas D. Kristof

Richard G. Lugar

Jane Holl Lute

Sylvia Mathews

Sam Nunn

Thomas O'Gara

William J. Perry

Jack Reed

Mitchell B. Reiss

Susan Rice

Dennis Ross

David Sanger

Wendy Sherman

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

Anne-Marie Slaughter

James B. Steinberg

Marin Strmecki

Strobe Talbott

Christopher Williams

Fareed Zakaria

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Henry Crown Fellowship Program

The Henry Crown Fellowship Program was established in 1997. It "seeks to develop our next generation of community-spirited leaders, providing them with the tools necessary to meet the challenges of corporate and civic leadership in the 21st century ... A unique mix of intellectual and personal development seminars designed to broaden the perspectives of the participants and hone their skills in values-based leadership. It honors the memory of Chicago industrialist Henry Crown (1896-1990), whose legendary career was marked by a lifelong commitment to honor, integrity, industry and philanthropy."

The two-year program commences each year with a class of 20 Crown Fellows "chosen from among young executives and professionals nominated for their potential to provide leadership at the highest levels of corporate and civic responsibility. The selected candidates are men and women between the ages of 25 and 45 who have already achieved considerable success in the private or public sector."

Board of Overseers

David T. McLaughlin, Chairman, President Emeritus and Honorary Trustee, The Aspen Institute

William E. Mayer, Chairman, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners

Lester Crown, Chairman, Material Service Corporation

Jay Marshall, Principal, AlixPartners, LLC

Francis R. Hoffman, Founder and Principal, Francis R. Hoffman Architects

Ann D. McLaughlin Korologos, Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute

Muriel Hoffman, Trustee, Henry and Gladys Crown Charitable Trust Fund

Dr. Harry J. Saal, President, Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley

Henrietta Holsman Fore, Director, United States Mint

Keith Berwick, Ex Officio Member; Executive Director, Henry Crown Fellowship Program

Aspen Health Stewardship Project

In Fall 2007, Aspen announced its "Health Stewardship Project," to "reframe and broaden the national dialogue on health care reform leading up to the 2008 presidential election and beyond." [1]

In January 2008, Aspen announced that former New Jersey governor turned PR executive Christine Todd Whitman; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Julie Gerberding, and GE Healthcare president and CEO Joseph Hogan would co-chair the health project. "They join Mark Ganz, president and CEO of Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, in leading the new project to help transform health care," stated an Aspen press release. [1]

Health Stewardship Project advisory board

From an Aspen Institute press release: [1]

Adam Bosworth, founder and CEO, Keas Inc.

Donald Berwick, president and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Linda Carnes, senior advisor, CDC Office of Enterprise Communications

Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, president and CEO, The Cleveland Clinic

Craig Fuller, executive vice president, APCO Worldwide

Mark Ganz, president and CEO of Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield

Julie Gerberding, director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

C. Martin Harris, chief information officer, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Joseph Hogan, president and CEO of GE Healthcare

Robert Honigberg, chief medical officer, GE Healthcare

Mark Pauly, chair of the Health Care Systems Department, the Wharton School of Business

Bradley Perkins, chief, CDC Office of Strategy and Innovation

Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School

Franklin Raines, president, Revolution Health

Elizabeth Teisberg, associate professor, Darden Graduate School of Business, UVA

Christine Todd Whitman, founder and president, The Whitman Strategy Group

Board of Trustees

William E. Mayer, Chairman, Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners

Henry E. Catto, Vice Chairman, Former Ambassador to Great Britain; Chair, Atlantic Council of the United States

Lester Crown, Vice Chairman; Chairman, Material Service Corporation

Mervyn L. Adelson, Chairman, East-West Capital Associates

Madelaine K. Albright, Principal, The Albright Group LLC

Paul F. Anderson, Senior Vice President, Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc.

Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States

Mercedes Bass, Sid R. Bass, Inc.

Berl Bernhard, Partner, Piper Rudnick LLP

Stephen L. Carter, Professor of Law, Yale University Law School

F. Peter Cundill, President, Cundill Investments Research

Andrea Cunningham, Chief Executive Officer, Citigate Cunningham, Inc.

Tarun Das, Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry

William L. Davis, Chairman and COO, WLD Davis Holdings, LLC

James L. Ferguson, Retired Chairman, General Foods Corporation

Jack D. Furst, Partner, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst

David Gergen, Prof/Pol Sci, John F. Kennedy School of Government; Editor-at-Large, US News & World Report

Alma L. Gildenhorn, Hon Trustee, Kennedy Center; Chairman, National Campaign, Univ MD Ctr/Performing Arts

Gerald Greenwald, Managing Partner, Greenbriar Equity Group

Patrick W. Gross, Chairman, The Lovell Group

Sidney Harman, Chairman and CEO, Harman International Industries, Inc.

Nina R. Houghton, Chairman, Wye Institute

Ann Frasher Hudson, Partner, Javelina Partners

David H. Koch, Executive Vice President, Chemical Technology, Koch Industries, Inc.

Ann McLaughlin Korologos, Former U. S. Secretary of Labor

Timothy K. Krauskopf, Principal, Round Lake Designs, LLC

Leonard A. Lauder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.

Gerald M. Levin, Retired CEO, AOL Time Warner, Inc.

Frederic V. Malek, Chairman, Thayer Capital Partners

Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO, F M C Corporation

John P. Mascotte, Former President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City

Karlheinz Muhr, Chairman, Volaris Advisors

Clare Munana, Ancora Associates, Inc.

Elinor Bunin Munroe, President, Elinor Bunin Productions, Inc.

William A. Nitze, President, Gemstar Group Inc.

Olara A. Otunnu, Under-Sec Gen, Spec Rep to UN Sec Gen for Children and Armed Conflict

Elaine Pagels Greenawalt, Professor of Religion, Princeton University

Thomas R. Pickering, Senior Vice President, Int'l Relations, The Boeing Company

Lord Charles Powell, Sagitta Asset Management Limited

Lynda Resnick, Co-Owner and Vice Chairman, Roll International Corporation

Ann W. Richards, Former Governor of Texas; Senior Advisor, Public Strategies, Inc.

Roy S. Roberts, Managing Director, Reliant Equity Investors

Johnathan Rodgers, President, Discovery Networks, U.S.

Lloyd G. Schermer, Retired Chairman & CEO, Lee Enterprises

Albert H. Small, President, Southern Engineering Corp.

Andrew L. Stern, International President, Service Employees International Union

Jack Valenti, Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association

Frederick B. Whittemore, Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

Alice Young, Esq., Chair, Asia Pacific Practice (U.S.) Kaye Scholer LLP

Nine New Members, April 2003 (See announcement)

L. John Doerr, general partner, Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Sylvia Earle, marine biologist; explorer-in-residence at National Geographic Society since 1998

Michael Eisner, established/funded the Eisner Foundation, philanthropic organization headed by his wife, Jane

Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Prof of Humanities, Harvard University; Dir, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research

Bonnie Palmer McCloskey, vice president, Aspen Center for New Medicine

Peter Reiling, president and CEO of TechnoServe, Inc.

Roderick K. von Lipsey, vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Private Wealth Management, Investment Management Division

Vin Weber, partner with Clark & Weinstock, management consulting firm

Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman/editor-in-chief, US News & World Report; publisher, New York Daily News

William H. Donaldson, resigned January 2003; nominated chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission

Henrietta Holsman Fore, "leave of absence"; Chairman & CEO, Holsman International; Director, U.S. Mint

Philip Merrill, "leave of absence"; Chairman, Capital-Gazette Communications; appointed head of U.S. Export-Import Bank

Honorary Trustees: See web site for list.

Trustees Emeritus: See web site for list.

Contact information

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Phone: 202.736.5800

Fax: 202.467.0790

URL: http://www.aspeninstitute.org

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Joseph E. Slater - former president

Harlan Cleveland - former director of international programs (1974-80)

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External links

References

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Articles

RightWeb Profile, last updated November 1989.

Nine Trustees Elected to Aspen Institute Board, U.S. Newswire, April 7, 2003.

Sidney Hyman, The Aspen Idea (University of Oklahoma Press).

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Aspen Institute / Aspen Strategy Group - SourceWatch

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The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (AIHS) describes itself as an "international non-profit organization dedicated to informed dialogue and inquiry on ...

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is a think tank founded by Robert Strausz-Hupé in 1955. The FPRI's describes itself as "devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests". [1] It has at its nexus a strong foundation based at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Former Chair - George P. Steele

Contents [hide]

1 Introduction

2 FPRI's Board Members

3 Personnel

4 Program Organization

4.1 Research Programs

4.1.1 The Asia Program

4.1.2 Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

4.1.3 Center for the Study of America and the West

4.1.4 Ethnic Conflict Program

4.1.5 Middle East Program

4.1.6 Program on National Security

4.1.7 Project on Democratic Transitions

4.1.8 South Asia

4.1.9 Think Tanks and Civil Societies

4.1.10 Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

4.2 Educational Programs

4.2.1 Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education

4.2.2 History Academy

5 Contact Information

6 References

Introduction

The FPRI's membership includes "a former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a former president of Swarthmore College and a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, and two former staff members of the National Security Council. We count among our trustees a former Secretary of State and a former Secretary of the Navy (and among our former trustees and interns two current Undersecretaries of Defense), not to mention two university presidents emeritus, a foundation president, and several active or retired corporate CEOs," it ststes on its website. [2]

The FPRI Publishes a quarterly journal titled Orbis [3] currently edited by Mackubin Owens, along with several different bulletins transmitted directly via email to approximately 18,000 key people in 85 countries.

The FPRI's claim of independence should not be mistaken for non-partisan, nor should their deep roots within higher education imply an intent of a simple advisory role. In a speech given at the Heritage Foundation on June 5, 1991, former FPRI member Daniel Pipes stated that the FPRI is an activist organization driven by its own ideology:

"Put most baldly, we have always advocated an activist U.S. foreign policy; we have shared an abiding suspicion of the Soviet Union and other Communist states; and we have always maintained a strong interest in the promotion of democracy, free-enterprise, and the rule of law. Perhaps most controversially, the professional staff is not shy about the use of force; were we members of Congress in January 1991, all of us would not only have voted with President Bush and Operation Desert Storm, we would have led the charge." [4]

FPRI's Board Members

As of April 2007 FPRI's Board members were:

Chairman

Robert L. Freedman - Dechert LLP

Vice Chairmen

Bruce H. Hooper

Samuel J. Savitz - Chairman, The Savitz Organization

Marvin Wachman - Chancellor, Temple University

President

Harvey Sicherman, Ph.D.

Vice President

Alan H. Luxenberg

Treasurer

Charles B. Grace - President, Ashbridge Corporation

Other Trustees

John H. Ball

Ahmed Charai - Chairman, MarocTelematique

W. W. Keen Butcher

John G. Christy - Chestnut Capital Corporation

Edward L. Dunham, Jr. - Counsel, Duane Morris LLP

Robert A. Fox - Chairman and President, R.A.F. Foundation

Barbara J. Gohn - Managing Director, Ashbridge Investment Management

Susan H. Goldberg

J. Eric Greenwood - Vice President, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Hon. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. - President, Worldwide Associates, Inc.

N. Peter Hamilton - Partner, Hill Solutions LLC

John Hillen

Graham Humes

Scott M. Jenkins - President, S.M. Jenkins and Co.

Hon. John F. Lehman, Jr. - J.F. Lehman & Company

Richard B. Lieb

David Lucterhand - Pragma Corporation

Martin Meyerson - President Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

I. Wistar Morris III - Boenning Inc.

Ronald J. Naples - President & CEO, Quaker Chemical Corporation

Marshall W. Pagon - Chairman and CEO, Pegasus Communications Corporation

James M. Papada III - CEO, Technitrol, Inc.

Frank N. Piasecki - President, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation

Alan L. Reed

Eileen Rosenau - Founder, Eileen Rosenau Associates

J. G. Rubenstein - Principal, Omni Management Associates

Lionel Savadove

Edwrd L. Snitzer - Prudent Management Associates

Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. - President, Templeton Foundation

Bruce D. Wietlisbach

Ricard E. Woosnam - President, Innovest Group, Inc.

William H. Wurster - Chairman, Wurster Group

Dov S. Zakheim - Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton - former Undersecretary of Defense ([Bush])

Personnel

Edward A. Turzanski, Senior Fellow

Program Organization

The FPRI is an ends focused think tank. They are not a just another grouping of theoreticians cogitating what ifs as they contemplate models from their armchairs. The FPRI openly strives to be activist, and sometimes even wrap descriptions of their activist intents with wordage that imples reverence. One of the FPRI's oft repeated mantras is that they are:

"devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests.""[1],[2],

The Institue's members also view their roles not first and foremost as researchers, but more along the lines of a practising engineer. They are willing to get their hands duty fulfilling their goals, one of which is to

"shape the national debate on foreign policy through frequent appearances in the national news media."[3]

These are often the same goals other think tanks share, the difference here being the FPRI's organization of proactive programs to facilitate the stated goals of influencing the government. They do not just sit back on their papers at the door to the leislature until called to testify, they engage.

Their organizational programs are divided into two main categories; research and educational.

Research Programs

Since the FPRI is intent on maintaining active role in the shaping of policy, both domestic and international, their research programs' fields of are dynamic. Currently, The main programs are:

The Asia Program

Co Director Jacques deLisle is a Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Co Director Avery Goldstein is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

Co-Chairman Michael Radu; Columbia University Ph. D., formerly a Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, and has held many government positions.

Co-Chairman Stephen Gale; University of Michigan; BA, MS, and Ph. D.; is a member of the University of Pennsylvania's faculty in the Departments of Political Science and of Reginal Science. Dr. Gale has previously been a faculty member at UC, Berkeley, Northwestern University and Columbia University.

Center for the Study of America and the West

Co Chairman Walter A. McDougall is a Professor of History at University of Pennsylvania, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He received his Ph D. from University of Chicago and was previously a Professor at UC, Berkeley.

Ethnic Conflict Program

Director Foulie Psalidas-Perlmutter, the University of Athens Ph.D. is a faculty member at the Graduate Center for Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania

Middle East Program

Program on National Security

Director John Hillen; a former US Army paratrooper and Special Ops Officer, he attended Duke University,BA, King’s College London, MS, Oxford, Ph D., and Johnson School of Management at Cornell, MBA. Dr. Hillien has been an executive at many technology Corporations, was an inaugural Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, member of U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (Gore/Rudman) and has been a fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Deputy Director Michael Noonan is currently an Army Reserves Captain working on a Ph D. from Loyola University, Chicago, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.

Associate Scholar Dr. Mackubin Thomas Owens, a former USMC officer and currently a Professor of Strategy, Naval War College. He is a regular contributor to the National Review.

Senior Fellow Chris Seiple; a former USMC Infantry Officer, he is currently President of the Institute for Global Engagement[4], he received his BA from Stanford and an MS from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Project on Democratic Transitions

"Launched in 2005 under the direction of Ambassador Adrian Basora, the Project on Democratic Transitions (PDT) examines the dramatic political-economic transformation of post-communist Europe and Eurasia since 1989 through a wide-angle lens." [5]

South Asia

Think Tanks and Civil Societies

Director Dr. James McGann; MS and Ph D, University of Pennsylvania; MS, Temple University. Currently he is President and founding Partner of McGann Associates, a think tank consulting firm.

Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

Executive Director Gregory Montanaro received his BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania .

Deputy Director William J. Malampy attended Drexel University, BA, and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia MS, MSE, M.Phil.

Educational Programs

Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education

Provides studies for High School teachers to improve their "international and civic literacy".

History Academy

Takes the Wachman Fund even farther and provides weekend seminars for High School teachers.

Contact Information

Foreign Policy Research Institute

1528 Walnut St, Ste 610

Philadelphia, PA 19102

Phone: 215-732-3774

Fax: 215-732-4401

Email: fpri AT fpri.org

Website: http://www.fpri.org/

References

Jump up? "About FPRI", accessed May 2007.

Jump up? "ORBIS: A Journal of World Affairs", accessed May 2007.

Jump up? Daniel Pipes, "From a Distance: Influencing Foreign Policy from Philadelphia", The Heritage Lectures, Heritage Foundation, June 5, 1991.

Jump up? Project on Democratic Transitions, Foreign Policy Research Institute, accessed June 13, 2008.

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84, Aspen Institute, $10,000, $10,000, $10,000, $7,400, $10,000, $12,000 ... http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coal_Utilization_Research_Council.

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May 20, 2017 - 16, Institute for Faith Work & Economics, $6,253,000, Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation ... $250,000, http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philanthropy_Roundtable ...... 582, Aspen's Strategic Initiative Institute, $10,000 ...