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Advisory board concerning US foreign policy
71st United States
Secretary of State
Antony Blinken
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 .
[1] 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.
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[3] The Board meets in a
plenary session several times a year at the
U.S. Department of State in the
Harry S. Truman Building .
[4]
History
The Foreign Affairs Policy Board was launched in December 2011 under then Secretary
Hillary Clinton and modeled after the
Defense Policy Board of the
U.S. Department of Defense .
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[6]
[7] The Board's first meeting was held on December 19, 2011.
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Membership
The Board is chartered to include 25 members who serve two-year terms.
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[6] They have a wide range of expertise and come from various backgrounds, including
government ,
academia , politics,
development , business, and
think tanks .
Current members (as of June 2023)
Thomas Donilon (Co-Chair), Chairman, BlackRock Investment Institute
Cecilia Muñoz (Co-Chair), former member of White House Domestic Policy Council under President Obama
David Autor , Ford Professor in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics and Vice President of the
American Economic Association
Sameer Bhalotra, co-founder & CEO of ActZero, a security company based in Menlo Park, California
Hal Brands , Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a senior fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar , tenth president of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. , 12th president of
Purdue University and former governor of
Indiana
Janine Davidson , president of
Metropolitan State University of Denver ,
Colorado ’s third largest and most diverse public university
Cathy Feingold, Director of the
AFL-CIO ’s International Department
Margaret Hamburg , former Commissioner of the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Jon Huntsman, Jr. , Vice Chair of
Ford Motor Company and former U.S. Ambassador to
China and
Russia
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson , co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities.
Kristie Kenney , former U.S. diplomat
Gilman G. Louie , CEO and co-founder of America’s Frontier Fund
Katherine Maher , former CEO and Executive Director of the
Wikimedia Foundation
James M. Manyika , Senior Vice President at
Alphabet Inc.
Meghan L. O’Sullivan , former deputy national security advisor on
Iraq and
Afghanistan
Annise D. Parker , former
Houston Mayor and City Controller
Vincent R. Stewart , USMC, former Deputy Commander at the
United States Cyber Command
Past members
The following are past members of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board as of 2019:
Liaquat Ahamed , author and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for History
Douglas Beck , Vice President, Americas and Northeast Asia for
Apple, Inc.
R. Nicholas Burns , former
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President
George W. Bush
Johnnie Carson , former
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under President
Barack Obama
Stephen A. Cheney , retired Brigadier General and CEO of the
American Security Project
Jared Cohen , Founder and CEO of
Jigsaw at
Alphabet Inc. and former Member of the
Policy Planning Staff under
Secretaries of State
Condoleezza Rice and
Hillary Clinton
Nelson Cunningham , President and co-founder of
McLarty Associates
Paula Dobriansky , former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs and President's Envoy to Northern Ireland under President
George W. Bush
Karen Donfried ,
[8] President of the
German Marshall Fund of the United States
Jim Donovan (banker) , Managing Director at
Goldman Sachs
David Dreier , former member of the
U.S. House of Representatives and chairman of the
House Rules Committee
Anne M. Finucane , Global Chief of Strategy and Marketing at
Bank of America
Ann Fudge , former
chairman and
CEO of
Young & Rubicam Brands
Helene Gayle , former president and CEO of
CARE
Stephen J. Hadley , former
National Security Advisor under President
George W. Bush
Cecil D. Haney , 4-star Admiral (Ret.),
United States Navy and former
STRATCOM Commander
Jane Harman , President of the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Carla A. Hills , Co-Chair of the
Council on Foreign Relations and former
U.S. Trade Representative under President
George H. W. Bush
Alberto Ibargüen , President and
CEO of the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Robert Kagan , Senior Fellow in foreign policy at the
Brookings Institution
William Kennard , former
U.S. Ambassador to the
European Union
Robert Kimmitt , former
U.S. Ambassador to Germany , former
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President
George H. W. Bush
Jim Kolbe , former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Stephen Krasner , former
Director of Policy Planning under President George W. Bush
Daniel C. Kurtzer ,
[9] professor of
Middle East studies at
Princeton University and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt
Mack McLarty , former
White House Chief of Staff under President
Bill Clinton
Michael Mullen , retired
United States Navy admiral and former
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents
George W. Bush and
Barack Obama
Vali Nasr , Dean of the
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and Senior Fellow in foreign policy at the
Brookings Institution
John D. Negroponte , former
Deputy Secretary of State and the first
Director of National Intelligence
Jacqueline Novogratz , founder and CEO of
Acumen
Joseph S. Nye ,
political scientist and professor at
Harvard University
Thomas R. Pickering , former
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and former
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
John Podesta , former
White House Chief of Staff under President
Bill Clinton and
Counselor to President
Barack Obama
William Roedy , former Chairman and CEO of
MTV Networks International
Susan Schwab , former
United States Trade Representative under President
George W. Bush
Anne-Marie Slaughter , President and CEO of
New America and former
Director of Policy Planning under Secretary
Hillary Clinton
Clifford Sobel , former
U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and
U.S. Ambassador to Brazil under President
George W. Bush
James Steinberg , former
United States Deputy Secretary of State
Louis B. Susman , former
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom under President
Barack Obama
Strobe Talbott , President of the
Brookings Institution and former
Deputy Secretary of State under President
Bill Clinton
Laura Tyson , former director of the
National Economic Council and the chair of the
Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton
Thomas J. Vallely , senior advisor for Mainland
Southeast Asia at the
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Richard Verma , former
U.S. Ambassador to India
Charles David Welch , former
U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs under President
George W. Bush
Christine Todd Whitman , former
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush and the
50th
Governor of New Jersey
References
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"Foreign Affairs Policy Board" . US Department of State . Retrieved June 28, 2023 .
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"Foreign Affairs Policy Board Meeting Notice" .
Federal Register . October 27, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
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"DoS Foreign Affairs Policy Board" .
Bloomberg News . Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
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"Meet Secretary Kerry's New Foreign Policy Board" . Diplopundit. October 22, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
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"Clinton starts "Foreign Affairs Policy Board" " .
Foreign Policy . December 5, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
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"Inaugural Meeting of Secretary Clinton's Foreign Affairs Policy Board" . U.S. Department of State,
Bureau of Public Affairs . December 5, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
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"Hillary Clinton turns to think tankers for new Foreign Affairs Policy Board" .
The Washington Post . December 5, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
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"Donfried Participates in Secretary Kerry's Foreign Affairs Policy Board" .
German Marshall Fund . April 30, 2015. Archived from
the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
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"Kurtzer Named to US State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board" .
Princeton University . June 16, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
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