Atlantic Council

Leadership & Staff

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Sara-Jayne Terp Disinformation Researcher

• GeoTech Center

Katherine Maher NPR CEO. former Wikimedia Foundation exec director

• Senior Fellow

Harlan K Ullman Senior Associate, Center for Naval Analysis

• senior advisor

Ellen R. Wald Marketing expert on the push back against the culture of climate alarmism

• senior fellow (Jul '18→?)

E William Stetson Film producer; Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council; Boatwright Foundation

• Senior Fellow

Emma Ashford

• Resident Senior Fellow

Michelle Kholos Brooks playwright, journalist

• nonresident senior fellow, Forward Defense initiative

Phillip Cornell oil policy specialist

• senior fellow

Natalie Jaresko Executive Director, Puerto Rico Fiscal Control Board | Ex-Ukrainian finance minister

• distinguished fellow (Sep '16→?)

Samantha Vinograd Goldman Sachs VP, former advisor to Tom Donilon

• fellow (Jun '16→?)

Board Members

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James C Smith Business executive Reuters, Pfizer, Atlantic Council

• Board member in Atlantic Council*

Miroslav Hornak

• director

George Chopivsky Managing principal, Fortis Comapnies

• director

Franco Nuschese President, Georgetown Entertainment LLC

• director

Ahmed Charai

• director

Frederick Kempe President & CEO, Atlantic Council

• President & CEO

Maciej Witucki

• Director

Kiron Skinner Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; fired as director of the US State Departner Policy Planning Staff in August 2019 for an "abusive" management style

• Director

Ahmet Oren

• Director

Wendy W Makins

• Director

Donors

Open Society Foundations International grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros

• Donation/Grant · 890,000 USD ('22)

Suzanne and Alan Peyser Foundation Inc private grant-making foundation

• Donation/Grant · 1,170 USD ('13→'15)

Burisma Holdings Ukraine’s largest private natural gas producer

• Donation/Grant ('17)

Donations

Aung San Suu Kyi Burmese opposition leader, won Nobel Peach Prize in 1991

• Global Citizen Award (Sep 21 '12)

Climate Policy Initiative World Bank-affiliated think tank researching climate solutions

• Donation/Grant

Child Organizations

Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East Atlantic Council center focused on policy

• Child Org

Free World Commission An off-shoot of the Atlantic Council, the Free World Commission is a high-profile commission of lawmakers from the US Congress and other leading democracies

• Child Org (Feb 16 '20→?)

Eurasia Center A program of the Atlantic Council

• program

International Advisory Board Influential group of global business and policy leaders who provide perspectives to the Atlantic Council’s president and board

• Child Org ('07→?)

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

• Child Org

Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) Atlantic Council’s disinformation research group

• Child Org

Members

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Eric Rasmussen DARPA exec

• Action Council Memeber

Curtis Scaparrotti Former ISAF Joint Command | I Corps Commander

• Member, Board of Directors

David Petraeus Former CIA director and former ISAF commander

• Member, Board of Directors (Apr '16→?)

Andrew Hastie An Australian politician and Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives.

• Member

C Alan Peyser Chairman, Investigative Project on Terrorism; Former Chairman and CEO of Cable & Wireless

• Premier Member [+1]

• Member

Carlos Pascual former ambassador to Mexico and Ukraine

• Director

Cynthia Quarterman Former Administrator, U.S. Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

• Distinguished Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center

Matt Lauer Executive Vice President of Qorvis’ international and crisis communications clients.

• Member

Roger Zakheim Of Counsel, Covington & Burling | former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

• Member

Catherine B Lotrionte CIA lawyer; Atlantic Council; CFR

• Member

Services & Transactions

Meta Online directory and social network; Facebook rebrand

• Service/Transaction

Goldman Sachs Wall Street investment banking, securities and investment management firm

• funder of Atlantic Council report

Carlos Pascual former ambassador to Mexico and Ukraine

• task force member for report

Neil Brown Director of Policy and Research for KKR Global Institute

• author of and advisor to reports

Miscellaneous Relationships

Syria Strategy Project Imperialist Intervention project in Syria co-sponsored by US and Europe

• Affiliation ('24→?)

Alliance of Democracies a Denmark-based think thank, dedicated to "the advancement of democracy and the free market across the globe"

• Affiliation

Richard Morningstar Former United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan

• Task Force Member

Lisa Murkowski US Senator from Alaska

• Task Force Member

Mark Warner US Senator from Virginia (2009-present); former Governor of Virginia

• Affiliation