Aspen Strategy Group
The Aspen Strategy Group's mission is to provide a bipartisan forum to explore the preeminent foreign policy challenges the United States faces. Its cross-disciplinary and high-level examination of policy strategies for addressing preeminent and emerging topics makes it crucially relevant to the American and global policy communities.
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Brent ScowcroftFounding Co-ChairmanLieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.), co-founded the Aspen Strategy Group in 1984 with Joseph Nye and Bill Perry. He served as the ASG’s Co-Chair until 2016 and as its…View Profile -
Condoleezza RiceAspen Strategy Group Co-ChairFounding Partner, Rice, Hadley ...Condoleezza Rice is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Tad and Dianne Taube Director and Thomas and Barbara Stephenson…View Profile -
Joseph NyeAspen Strategy Group Co-ChairUniversity Distinguished Servi ...Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University,…View Profile -
Anja ManuelExecutive DirectorAspen Strategy Group and Aspen ...Former diplomat, author, and advisor on foreign policy, Anja Manuel is Co-Founder and Principal along with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, and former…View Profile -
Zoë BairdAspen Strategy Group MemberSenior Counselor to the Secret ...Zoë Baird is Senior Counselor to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo for Technology and Economic Growth. In this role, Ms. Baird focuses on advancing U.S. engagement with international partners in…View Profile -
Stephen E. BiegunAspen Strategy Group MemberSenior Vice President, The Boe ...Stephen E. Biegun is a Senior Vice President with The Boeing Company. He has more than three decades of international affairs experience in government and private sector, including service with…View Profile -
Robert D. BlackwillAspen Strategy Group MemberHenry A. Kissinger Senior Fell ...Robert D. Blackwill is the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Blackwill served as deputy assistant to the president and…View Profile -
Chris BroseAspen Strategy Group MemberChief Strategy Officer, Anduri ...Chris Brose is the Chief Strategy Officer of Anduril Industries, a venture-backed defense technology company. He is the author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech…View Profile -
Sylvia BurwellAspen Strategy Group MemberPresident, American University ...Sylvia Burwell is American University’s 15th president. Secretary Burwell has held two Cabinet positions in the United States government. She served as the 22nd Secretary of the United States Department…View Profile -
Chris CoonsAspen Strategy Group MemberSenator, United States Senate ...Chris Coons was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 following terms as New Castle County Council President and County Executive. He sits on the Appropriations, Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Small…View Profile -
John DeutchAspen Strategy Group MemberInstitute Professor, Massachus ...John Deutch is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1970, and has served as Chairman of…View Profile -
Thomas E. DonilonAspen Strategy Group MemberChairman, BlackRock Investment ...Thomas Donilon is the Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute. Previously, he served as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama. In that capacity, he coordinated the administration’s foreign policy,…View Profile -
Elizabeth EconomyAspen Strategy Group MemberSenior Fellow, Hoover Institut ...Elizabeth Economy is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. From 2021 to 2023, she served as Senior Advisor (for China) to the Secretary of Commerce. She previously…View Profile -
Mark T. EsperAspen Strategy Group MemberChairman of the National Secur ...Mark T. Esper served as Secretary of Defense from 2019-2020, and as Secretary of the Army from 2017-2019. A distinguished West Point graduate, he spent 21 years in uniform, including…View Profile -
Richard FalkenrathAspen Strategy Group MemberSenior Fellow, Council on Fore ...Richard Falkenrath is Senior Fellow for National Security at the Council on Foreign Relations. Until May 2024, he was Head of Client Service and Head of Geopolitics at Bridgewater Associates,…View Profile -
Peter D. FeaverAspen Strategy Group MemberProfessor, Duke University ...Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. He is Director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy and…View Profile -
Michèle FlournoyAspen Strategy Group MemberCo-Founder and Managing Partne ...Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and a Co-Founder, former Chief Executive Officer, and now Chair of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Michèle…View Profile -
Jendayi E. FrazerAspen Strategy Group MemberDuignan Distinguished Visiting ...Jendayi E. Frazer is the Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously she served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from…View Profile -
Michael FromanAspen Strategy Group MemberPresident, Council on Foreign ...Michael Froman is President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He previously served as Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth, at Mastercard; Chairman of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive…View Profile -
Robert GatesAspen Strategy Group MemberPrincipal, Rice, Hadley, Gates ...Robert Gates served as the 22nd Secretary of Defense (2006-2011). He is the only Secretary of Defense in U.S. history to be asked to remain in office by a newly…View Profile -
Susan GlasserAspen Strategy Group MemberStaff Writer and Columnist, Th ...Susan Glasser is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes a weekly column on life in Washington. Ms. Glasser has served as the top editor of several…View Profile -
Michael J. GreenAspen Strategy Group MemberProfessor and CEO, U.S. Studie ...Michael J. Green is the CEO of the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney where he oversees research on security, technology, and trade policy issues in the U.S.-Australia…View Profile -
Naima Green-RileyAspen Strategy Group MemberAssistant Professor, School of ...Naima Green-Riley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is also a Nonresident Fellow with…View Profile -
Stephen HadleyAspen Strategy Group MemberFounding Principal, Rice, Hadl ...Stephen Hadley is a principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm founded with Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and Anja Manuel. He is an Executive…View Profile -
Jane HarmanAspen Institute Trustee and Aspen Strategy Group MemberChair, Commission on the Natio ...Jane Harman served nine terms in Congress as the U.S. representative for California’s 36th congressional district and was ranking member of the Intelligence Committee after 9/11. She left the House…View Profile -
Chris HowardAspen Strategy Group MemberExecutive Vice President and C ...Chris Howard is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Arizona State University. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and earned a doctorate…View Profile -
Kay Bailey HutchisonAspen Strategy Group MemberFormer U.S. Senator, and Forme ...Kay Bailey Hutchison stepped down from her term as U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels, Belgium in 2021. For 3.5 years, she focused on the importance of U.S. leadership…View Profile -
David IgnatiusAspen Strategy Group MemberColumnist, The Washington Post ...David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column for The Washington Post. Mr. Ignatius has written 12 spy novels: Phantom Orbit (2024), The Paladin (2020), The Quantum Spy (2017), The…View Profile -
Nicholas D. KristofAspen Strategy Group MemberColumnist, The New York Times ...Nicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose op-ed columns appear twice a week in The New York Times. He is co-author, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of five…View Profile -
Dina Powell McCormickAspen Strategy Group MemberVice Chairman, President & Glo ...Dina Powell McCormick is Vice Chairman, President & Global Head of Client Services of BDT & MSD Partners. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs for 16 years where she was…View Profile -
Sam NunnAspen Strategy Group MemberCo-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initi ...Sam Nunn is Co-Chair and former Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. He served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia for 24 years, from 1972 to 1996. In…View Profile -
Meghan O’SullivanAspen Strategy Group MemberDirector of the Belfer Center ...Meghan L. O’Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.…View Profile -
William PerryAspen Strategy Group MemberMichael and Barbara Berberian ...William Perry is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University. He is a senior fellow at FSI and serves as the director of the Preventive Defense Project.…View Profile -
David PetraeusAspen Strategy Group MemberPartner and Chairman of the Gl ...General David Petraeus, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a partner with the global investment firm KKR and the chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which he established in June 2013. He…View Profile -
Penny PritzkerAspen Strategy Group MemberChairman, PSP Partners, and Fo ...Penny Pritzker is the founder and Chairman of PSP Partners, which invests through its affiliates in technology services, value added industrials, and real estate. From 2013 to 2017, Ms. Pritzker…View Profile -
Thomas PritzkerAspen Strategy Group MemberExecutive Chairman, Hyatt Hote ...Tom Pritzker, born in Chicago, holds a B.A. from Claremont Men’s College and M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Mr. Pritzker is Executive Chairman of Hyatt Hotels…View Profile -
Jack ReedAspen Strategy Group MemberSenator, United States Senate ...Jack Reed was elected to the Senate in 1996, as the 46th United States Senator from Rhode Island. He a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Banking,…View Profile -
Susan RiceAspen Strategy Group MemberFormer U.S. National Security ...Ambassador Susan E. Rice was Domestic Policy Advisor to President Joe Biden as well as President Obama’s National Security Advisor, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and a member…View Profile -
David M. RubensteinAspen Strategy Group MemberCo-Founder and Co-Chairman, Th ...David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $276 billion…View Profile -
David E. SangerAspen Strategy Group MemberWhite House and National Secur ...David E. Sanger has reported for The New York Times for more than four decades, serving on three teams that have won the Pulitzer Prize. He has served as Tokyo…View Profile -
Susan SchwabAspen Strategy Group MemberBoard Chair, National Foreign ...Susan Schwab is Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Foreign Trade Council, Strategic Advisor at Mayer Brown LLP, and Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland’s School…View Profile -
Anne-Marie SlaughterAspen Strategy Group MemberCEO, New America ...Anne-Marie Slaughter is CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to developing and applying the big ideas necessary for a new America to thrive. She previously served as a…View Profile -
Dan SullivanAspen Strategy Group MemberUnited States Senator ...Dan Sullivan was sworn in as Alaska’s eighth United States Senator on January 6, 2015. The senator serves on four Senate committees vital to Alaska: Armed Services, Environment and Public…View Profile -
Lawrence H. SummersAspen Strategy Group MemberCharles W. Eliot University Pr ...Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades, he has served in a series of senior policy…View Profile -
Strobe TalbottAspen Strategy Group MemberDistinguished Fellow in Reside ...Strobe Talbott is a distinguished fellow in residence in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Previously, Talbott served as president of the Brookings Institution from July 2002 to…View Profile -
Frances F. TownsendAspen Strategy Group MemberExecutive Vice President of Co ...Frances Fragos Townsend is the EVP of Corporate Affairs, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary at Activision Blizzard. Prior to that, she was Vice Chairman, General Counsel, and Chief Administrative…View Profile -
Philip ZelikowAspen Strategy Group MemberSenior Fellow, Stanford Univer ...Philip Zelikow is the Botha-Chan Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Before coming to Stanford in 2023, he was a chaired professor of history at the University of Virginia…View Profile -
Robert ZoellickAspen Strategy Group MemberSenior Counselor, Brunswick Gr ...Robert Zoellick is the Chair of Temasek Americas, Senior Advisor at Brunswick Group Geopolitical, and Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center. In addition, Mr. Zoellick serves on the board of…View Profile
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