Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution
Abbreviation	Brookings
Motto	Quality. Independence. Impact.
Formation	1916
Headquarters	1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Leader	Brookings Institution/President;
Type	think tank
Sponsored by	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Democracy Fund, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation
Subpage	•Brookings Institution/President;
Membership	• Leonard Abramson; • George A. Akerlof; • Graham T. Allison; • Dillon Anderson; • Michael Armacost; • Elizabeth E. Bailey; • Martin N. Baily; • Zoë Baird; • A. Doak Barnett; • Peter Beinart; • C. Fred Bergsten; • Irving Bernstein; • Alan S. Blinder; • Richard C. Blum; • Geoffrey T. Boisi; • David F. Bradford; • Robert S. Brookings; • Richard C. Bush III; • Vannevar Bush; • Earl Butz; • Derek Chollet; • James W. Cicconi; • Priscilla A. Clapp; • Stephen P. Cohen; • William Cohen; • William T. Coleman Jr; • Arthur H. Compton; • Karl T. Compton; • Jeffrey Connaughton; • Donald T. Critchlow; • Arthur Culvahouse; • Ivo Daalder; • Kenneth W. Dam; • Robert A. Day; • C. Douglas Dillon; • E. J. Dionne; • Thomas E. Donilon; • Mario Draghi; • Ken Duberstein; • Mickey Edwards; • Douglas W. Elmendorf; • Bruce Fein; • Lawrence K. Fish; • Richard W. Fisher; • Henry H. Fowler; • Jeffrey A. Frankel; • Richard Freeman; • William E. Frenzel; • Stephen Friedman; • Ann M. Fudge; • Jason Furman; • James K. Galbraith; • Robert Gallucci; • Raymond L. Garthoff; • Leslie H. Gelb; • William H. Gleysteen; • Stephen M. Goldfeld; • James M. Goldgeier; • James Goodby; • Kermit Gordon; • Lincoln Gordon; • Mary Graham; • Edward M. Gramlich; • C. Boyden Gray; • Jeffrey W. Greenberg; • Brian L. Greenspun; • Zvi Griliches; • Joseph A. Grundfest; • Richard Haass; • Avril Haines; • Lee H. Hamilton; • Mary W. M. Hargreaves; • John F. Harris; • Arthur A. Hartman; • Rita E. Hauser; • Teresa Heinz; • Warren Hellman; • Peter Blair Henry; • Stephen Hess; • Stephen Horn; • Constance J. Horner; • Amo Houghton; • Glenn Hubbard; • Samuel P. Huntington; • Glenn H. Hutchins; • Joel Hyatt; • Martin Indyk; • Shirley A. Jackson; • Kenneth Jacobs; • James A. Johnson; • Suzanne Nora Johnson; • Ann Dibble Jordan; • Michael H. Jordan; • Arnold Kanter; • Robert A. Katzmann; • Breene M. Kerr; • Marie L. Knowles; • Lawrence J. Korb; • Thomas G. Labrecque; • Nicholas R. Lardy; • Robert Z. Lawrence; • Flynt Leverett; • Jacob J. Lew; • John P. Lewis; • Samuel W. Lewis; • James Thomas Lynn; • Paul W. MacAvoy; • Thomas E. Mann; • Jessica Tuchman Mathews; • Donald F. McHenry; • John E. McLaughlin; • Robert McNamara; • James C. Miller III; • Ron Nessen; • Janne E. Nolan; • Edwin G. Nourse; • Michael O'Hanlon; • Arthur M. Okun; • Gilbert S. Omenn; • Peter R. Orszag; • Alfred E. Osborne Jr; • Henry D. Owen; • William A. Owens; • Mark R. Parris; • Bill Paxon; • Frank H. Pearl; • Merton J. Peck; • Susan M. Phillips; • Victor Pinchuk; • Kenneth Pollack; • Bill Poole; • John Edward Porter; • Adam Posen; • Trevor Potter; • Edward C. Prescott; • Hugh B. Price; • Steven Rattner; • Diane Ravitch; • Robert D. Reischauer; • Susan E. Rice; • Rozanne L. Ridgway; • Bruce Riedel; • Alice Rivlin; • Charles W. Robinson; • James D. Robinson III; • Judith Rodin; • J. Stapleton Roy; • Warren Rudman; • Haim Saban; • Jeffrey Sachs; • Hal Saunders; • Henry B. Schacht; • Leonard D. Schaeffer; • Cynthia P. Schneider; • Charles L. Schultze; • Bernard L. Schwartz; • Donna Shalala; • Martin Shubik; • Helmut Sonnenfeldt; • Joan Spero; • James B. Steinberg; • Paula Stern; • Lawrence H. Summers; • Harold R. Swearer; • Strobe Talbott; • Stuart Taylor Jr; • Ruy Teixeira; • Shibley Telhami; • Larry D. Thompson; • John L. Thornton; • Andrew H. Tisch; • Vincent J. Trosino; • Laura D. Tyson; • Peter S. Watson; • John C. Whitehead; • Juan Williams; • Stephen M. Wolf; • James Wolfensohn; • Howard Wolpe; • Paul Wonnacott; • Janet L. Yellen; • Daniel Yergin; • Charles W. Yost; • Mort Zuckerman; • Constanze Stelzenmüller; • George Pagoulatos

The Brookings Institution is a think tank started in 1916.

September 11, 2001

Full article: 9-11

On 22 May 2002, the Brookings Institution published Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis about the attacks of September 11, 2001, authored by Michael E. O'Hanlon, Peter R. Orszag, Ivo H. Daalder, I. M. Destler, David L. Gunter, Robert E. Litan and James B. Steinberg.

Leadership

Billionaire David M. Rubenstein became co-chairman in 2014.^[1] Since 1927, the Brookings Institution has had a President.

Funding

The Qatari government was named by The New York Times as "the single biggest foreign donor to Brookings", having reportedly made a $14.8 million, four-year contribution in 2014.^[2]

Events Sponsored

Event	Description
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Influential foundation which was established at a time when a judge ruled that Microsoft was to be broken up. It's founder has been described as a bully who dressed down employees in public, who seemed to thrive on conflict and always pressed for advantage.
Democracy Fund
Open Society Foundations
Rockefeller Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation

References

[1] ttp://news.muckety.com/2014/03/19/rubenstein-becomes-co-chair-of-brookings/46271

[2] ttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/us/politics/foreign-powers-buy-influence-at-think-tanks.html

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