The Aspen Strategy Group (ASG), founded in 1984, is a program of the Aspen Institute

Aspen Institute

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. It is a bipartisan forum composed of current and former politicians, civil servants, academics, journalists and business leaders who discuss issues of key importance in the realms of foreign policy, strategy and international security.

The ASG is also involved in the creation and development of the Aspen Atlantic Group, composed of former foreign ministers from North America and Europe, as well as the "U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue" which the ASG co-sponsors with the Confederation of Indian Industry

Confederation of Indian Industry

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Leadership

• R. Nicholas Burns
  R. Nicholas Burns
  R. Nicholas Burns is a retired American diplomat. He is currently Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a member of the Board of Directors of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs...
  
  , Director
• Joseph Nye
  Joseph Nye
  Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr. is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory neoliberalism, developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence...
  
  , Co-Chair
• Brent Scowcroft
  Brent Scowcroft
  Brent Scowcroft, KBE was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National...
  
  , Co-Chair

Group Members

• Madeleine Albright
  Madeleine Albright
  Madeleine Korbelová Albright is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0...
  
  
• Richard Armitage
  Richard Armitage (politician)
  Richard Lee Armitage, GCMG AC CNZM was the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department, serving from 2001 to 2005.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• Zoë Baird
  Zoë Baird
  Zoë Eliot Baird is an American lawyer who is president of the Markle Foundation. She is most known for her role in the Nannygate matter of 1993.-Biography:...
  
  
• Stephen Biegun
• Robert Blackwill
  Robert Blackwill
  Robert Dean Blackwill is an American lobbyist and retired diplomat. Blackwill was the United States Ambassador to India , and United States National Security Council Deputy for Iraq , where he was a liaison between Paul Bremer and Condoleezza Rice.-Early life, education, and Peace Corps...
  
  
• Susan Collins
  Susan Collins
  Susan Margaret Collins is the junior United States Senator from Maine and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the Senate in 1996, she is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
  
  
• Richard Danzig
  Richard Danzig
  Richard Jeffrey Danzig is an American lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton...
  
  
• John Deutch
• Richard A. Falkenrath
  Richard A. Falkenrath
  Richard A. Falkenrath, Jr. was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism of the New York City Police Department on July 10, 2006. He is the third person to hold this position...
  
  
• Peter Feaver
• Dianne Feinstein
  Dianne Feinstein
  Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein is the senior U.S. Senator from California. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Senate since 1992. She also served as 38th Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988....
  
  
• Stephen Friedman
• Michael Green
  Michael Green (political expert)
  Michael Green is the Japan Chair and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , as well as an associate professor of international relations at Georgetown University...
  
  
• Richard Haass
• Chuck Hagel
  Chuck Hagel
  Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel is a former United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002...
  
  
• Jane Harman
  Jane Harman
  Jane Margaret Lakes Harman is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party....
  
  
• Arnold Kanter
  Arnold Kanter
  Arnold Kanter served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1991 to 1993. He also held a position on the White House staff from 1989 to 1991 as Special Assistant to the President and served in a variety of capacities in the State Department from 1977 to 1985...
  
  
• Nicholas D. Kristof
  Nicholas D. Kristof
  Nicholas Donabet Kristof is an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001 and is known for bringing to light human rights abuses in Asia and Africa, such as human trafficking and the...
  
  
• Richard Lugar
• Leo Mackay, Jr.
  Leo Mackay, Jr.
  Leo Mackay, Jr. is a former deputy secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.He is Vice President, and an elected corporate officer, of Lockheed Martin Corporation...
  
  
• Sylvia Mathews Burwell
• Sam Nunn
  Sam Nunn
  Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative , a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a...
  
  
• Thomas O'Gara
• William J. Perry
• Jack Reed
• Mitchell Reiss
  Mitchell Reiss
  Mitchell B. Reiss is a senior American diplomat who became the 27th president of Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland on July 1, 2010. He served as Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State under Colin Powell...
  
  
• Condoleezza Rice
  Condoleezza Rice
  Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush...
  
  
• Carla Anne Robbins
  Carla Anne Robbins
  Carla Anne Robbins is an American journalist and deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times. Robbins joined the editorial board in July 2006 and became deputy editor in January 2007. Previously, Robbins was The Wall Street Journal's chief diplomatic correspondent and edited the Washington...
  
  
• David Sanger
  David E. Sanger
  David E. Sanger is the Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times. A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Sanger has been writing for the Times for over 26 years covering foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, and the presidency...
  
  
• Wendy Sherman
  Wendy Sherman
  Wendy Ruth Sherman is a United States diplomat, government official, non-profit manager, and adviser to politicians and business. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Counselor of the United States Department of State and Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State and...
  
  
• Marin Strmecki
• Strobe Talbott
  Strobe Talbott
  Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001.-Early life:Born in Dayton, Ohio...
  
  
• Fareed Zakaria
  Fareed Zakaria
  Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...
  
  
• Philip D. Zelikow
  Philip D. Zelikow
  Philip D. Zelikow is an American diplomat, academic and author. He has worked as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and Counselor of the United States Department of State...
  
  
• Robert Zoellick
  Robert Zoellick
  Robert Bruce Zoellick is the eleventh president of the World Bank, a position he has held since July 1, 2007. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs, United States Deputy Secretary of State and U.S. Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005.President...
  
  

Emeritus Members

• Michael Armacost
  Michael Armacost
  Michael Hayden Armacost is a fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute. He previously was the president of the Brookings Institution from 1995-2002.-Diplomatic career:...
  
  
• Judith H. Bello
• Lael Brainard
  Lael Brainard
  Lael Brainard is the United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs in the administration of President Barack Obama. She previously was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution from 2001 to 2009, and served as the vice president and director of the Global Economy and...
  
  
• Sam Brownback
  Sam Brownback
  Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback is the 46th and current Governor of Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011, and as a U.S. Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 1996...
  
  
• Kurt M. Campbell
  Kurt M. Campbell
  Kurt M. Campbell is an American diplomat and academic, currently serving as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.He was previously the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security , a national security think tank launched in January 2007...
  
  
• Ashton Carter
  Ashton Carter
  Ashton Baldwin Carter is a United States national security professional. He is is the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. Prior to that, He served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for President Barack Obama. He is currently on leave from his post as...
  
  
• Dick Cheney
  Dick Cheney
  Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....
  
  
• Eliot Cohen
• Richard N. Cooper
  Richard N. Cooper
  Richard Newell Cooper is an American economist, policy adviser, and academic.Cooper graduated from Oberlin College in 1956 and received a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Marshall Scholar in 1958. He received his Ph.D...
  
  
• Kenneth W. Dam
  Kenneth W. Dam
  Kenneth W. Dam served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 2001 to 2003, where he specialized in international economic development...
  
  
• Thomas E. Donilon
  Thomas E. Donilon
  Thomas E. “Tom” Donilon is the National Security Advisor in the Obama Administration, and has had a career as a U.S. political advisor, government official and lawyer...
  
  
• Michele Flournoy
  Michele Flournoy
  Michèle Angelique Flournoy is Under Secretary of Defense for Policy of the United States. She was confirmed in the position by the U.S. Senate on February 9, 2009 and was at the time the highest-ranking woman to hold a post at the Pentagon in the facility's history. She founded and was named...
  
  
• Stephen Friedman
  Stephen Friedman (PFIAB)
  Stephen Friedman is the former Chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He was nominated on October 27, 2005 to replace Brent Scowcroft in the position.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Robert Gates
  Robert Gates
  Dr. Robert Michael Gates is a retired civil servant and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W....
  
  
• David Gergen
  David Gergen
  David Richmond Gergen is an American political consultant and former presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. He is currently Director of the Center for Public Leadership and a professor of public service at Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen is...
  
  
• Al Gore
  Al Gore
  Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
  
  
• Margaret Hamburg
• Jim Hoagland
  Jim Hoagland
  Jim Hoagland is an American journalist and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent, and columnist for The Washington Post....
  
  
• Kay Bailey Hutchison
  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison, known as Kay Bailey Hutchison , is the senior United States Senator from Texas.She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001, she was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. The first woman to represent Texas in the U.S....
  
  
• David C. Jones
• Robert Kagan
  Robert Kagan
  Robert Kagan is an American historian and foreign policy commentator.-Early life and education:Kagan graduated from Yale University in 1980 where he was tapped by Skull and Bones, studied history, and founded the Yale Political Monthly. He later earned an MPP from the John F...
  
  
• David Lipton
• Jan Lodal
• Jane Holl Lute
  Jane Holl Lute
  Jane Holl Lute currently serves as the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, having been confirmed by the Senate on April 3, 2009. Previously, Lute was the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support...
  
  
• Jessica Mathews
  Jessica Mathews
  Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank in Washington D.C. She has held the post since 1997...
  
  
• Judith Miller
  Judith Miller (journalist)
  Judith Miller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, formerly of the New York Times Washington bureau. Her coverage of Iraq's alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction program both before and after the 2003 invasion generated much controversy...
  
  
• Janne Nolan
• William Owens
• Susan Rice
• Alice Rivlin
  Alice Rivlin
  Alice Mitchell Rivlin is an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget. She has served as the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and the first Director of the Congressional Budget Office...
  
  
• Dennis Ross
  Dennis Ross
  Dennis B. Ross is an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W...
  
  
• Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
• Walter B. Slocombe
  Walter B. Slocombe
  Walter Becker Slocombe is a former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and was the Senior Advisor for Security and Defence to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad ....
  
  
• James B. Steinberg
• John W. Warner
• William Webster
• Christopher Williams
• Paul Wolfowitz
  Paul Wolfowitz
  Paul Dundes Wolfowitz is a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University...
  
  
• R. James Woolsey

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