Co-Chairs and Trustees
Co-Chairs
Chan Heng Chee

Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is Ambassador-at-Large with the Singapore Foreign Ministry.
She chairs the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and Design. She is Chairman of the National Arts Council, a Member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights, a Member of the Constitutional Commission 2016 and Deputy Chairman of the Social Science Research Council. Ambassador Chan is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore and a Member of the Yale-NUS Governing Board. She serves as a Member of the Advisory Council of Temasek Foundation Connects and also as a Member of the Executive Board of the China Cultural Centre. She is Global Co-Chair of Asia Society, and a Member of the International Advisory Panel, AXA Group, GIE AXA, Paris (France).
Previously, she was Singapore's Ambassador to the United States and Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations with concurrent accreditation as High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico.
Ambassador Chan received a number of awards including The Public Administration Medal (Gold); The Meritorious Service Medal; The Distinguished Service Order; Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Newcastle, Australia; the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom); and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). When Ambassador Chan left Washington at the end of her appointment, she received the Inaugural Asia Society Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award, the Inaugural Foreign Policy Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award 2012 and the United States Navy Distinguished Public Service Award.
John L. Thornton

John L. Thornton is Chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation.
He is a Global Co-Chair of Asia Society. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and a Professor and Director of the Global Leadership Program at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing. He was Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management from 2010 to 2013. Mr. Thornton retired in 2003 as President and a member of the board of the Goldman Sachs Group.
Mr. Thornton is a director of the Ford Motor Company. He is also the Non-Executive Chairman of PineBridge Investments and Chairman of Silk Road Finance Corporation. He is a trustee, advisory board member or member of the African Leadership Academy, the China Foreign Affairs University, China Investment Corporation (CIC), Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban), Council on Foreign Relations, General Atlantic, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, McKinsey Advisory Council, Morehouse College and Schwarzman Scholars.
In 2007, Institutional Investor Magazine named Mr. Thornton one of 40 individuals who have had the greatest influence in shaping global financial markets over the previous forty years. In 2008, he was awarded the Friendship Award of the People's Republic of China, the highest honor accorded to a non-Chinese citizen. The Chinese government also named him as one of fifteen ‘foreign experts’ who have made the most significant contribution to China’s development over the past three decades.
Trustees

Nicolas Aguzin

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Joseph Y. Bae



Stephen Bird



Ronnie C. Chan



















Mitchell R. Julis



Adrian T. Keller








Harold McGraw III


John D. Negroponte



Robert Niehaus


















Zhang Xin


Committee Chairs
Executive Committee
Chan Heng Chee, Co-Chair
John L. Thornton, Co-Chair
Vice Chairs of the Board
Betsy Z. Cohen
Lewis B. Kaden
Lulu C. Wang
Nominating and Governance Committee
Lewis B. Kaden
Finance and Budget Committee
Robert Niehaus
Investment Committee
Harold J. Newman
Development Committee
Denise Saul
Compensation Committee
J. Frank Brown
Audit Committee
Hamid Biglari
Global Centers Committee
Edward R. Allen III, Co-Chair
Doris Magsasay Ho, Co-Chair
Strategic Program Review Committee
Betsy Z. Cohen
Chair Emeriti
Ronnie C. Chan (2011-2017)
Henrietta H. Fore (2011-2017)
Maurice R. Greenberg (1995-2002)
Charles R. Kaye (2009-2011)
Honorary Life Trustees
Peter A. Aron
Lisina M. Hoch
Winthrop R. Munyan
Cynthia Hazen Polsky
John D. Rockefeller IV
Trustees Emeriti
Hushang Ansary
Tom Brokaw
Pei-Yuan Chia
Gina Lin Chu
Jerome A. Cohen
Rohit M. Desai
Dinyar Devitre
Inger McCabe Elliott
Patrick A. Gerschel
Carol Gluck, Co-Chair
G.F. Robert Hanke
James B. Hunt, Jr.
Thomas S. Johnson
Charles R. Kaye
Leo KoGuan
Linda Yuen-Ching Lim
Vikram Malhotra
Clare Tweedy McMorris
Gita Mehta
Victor J. Menezes, Co-Chair
Robert Miller
Hugh M. Morgan
John D. Negroponte
Ruth Newman
Nafis Sadik
Carl Spielvogel
Judith Ogden Thomson
Pote Videt
John S. Wadsworth, Jr.
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.
Dolores Wharton
Cynthia Whitehead
James D. Wolfensohn
Presidents Emeriti
Vishakha N. Desai
Robert B. Oxnam
Nicholas Platt
Past Chairs
Grayson L. Kirk (1956-1964)
John D. Rockefeller 3rd (1964-1974)
George W. Ball (1974-1982)
Roy M. Huffington (1983-1989)
John C. Whitehead (1989-1995)
Richard C. Holbrooke (2002-2009)