Kissinger Institute on China and the United States

Founding Council Members

American Co-Chairman

• Dr. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser

  Chinese Co-Chairman

• Xu Kuangdi, former President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Mayor of Shanghai

  Vice Chairman

• Philip Falcone, Senior Managing Director, Harbinger Capital Partners

  American Founding Council Members

• Richard Adkerson, President and CEO, Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold
• Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr and Company
• Hon. Barbara Hackman Franklin, President and CEO, Barbara Franklin Enterprises; former US Secretary of Commerce
• Hon. Carla A. Hills, Chairman and CEO, Hills & Company, International Consultants; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; former US Trader Representative
• David Metzner, Managing Partner, American Continental Group
• Dr. Alexander Mirtchev, Founder and President, Krull Corp.
• Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.
• David O'Reilly, former Chairman and CEI, Chevron Corporation
• Hon. Robert Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; former US Secretary of the Treasury and Director of the National Economic Council
• Hon. George P. Shultz, Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution; former US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State

  Chinese Founding Council Members

• Tung Chee-hwa, former Hong Kong Chief Executive, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and President of the China-US Exchange Foundation in Hong Kong
• Zhou Wenzhong, former PRC Ambassador to the United States
• Yang Wenchang, President of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to Singapore
• Chen Yonglong, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, former PRC Ambassador to Jordan and Israel
• Yang Jiemian, President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and brother of PRC Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi
• Gao Xiqing, Vice Chairman, President, and CIO of China Investment Corporation, the PRC’s principal sovereign wealth fund with over $200 billion under management
• Fu Chengyu, President of China National Offshore Oil Corporation
• Wei Jiafu, Executive President and CEO of China Ocean Shipping Company, one of the largest liner shipping companies worldwide and the largest dry bulk carrier in China
• Xu Lejiang, Chairman of Baosteel Group Corporation, China’s largest iron and steel conglomerate and the third largest steel producer in the world

  Scholars

• Martin Dimitrov