Commonwealth Club
of California
Speakers
Actor/director Rob Reiner in coversation with KGO-TV anchor Dan
Ashley, 2013
The list of notable speakers and speeches numbers in the
thousands and includes domestic and foreign political and military leaders, Nobel
prize-winning scientists, authors, activists, and artists. A book of
important club speeches, Each a Mighty Voice, was published in 2004 by Heyday Books.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his New Deal speech at
the club. While in office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke at the club, as did Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
During his term as Vice
President, Dan Quayle
delivered his famous Murphy
Brown speech to the group. One recent live "Address to the
Club" was a wide-ranging discussion with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
at the end of her 2010 trip to the Balkans. Other major recent
speakers include California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, California Attorney General Kamala Harris,
former secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz,
James Baker,
and Madeleine Albright; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner;
authors Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and
Greg Mortenson;
microcredit entrepreneur and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus;
historian Victor Davis Hanson; airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger; CIA Director Leon Panetta;
former U.S. Comptroller
General
and Peter Peterson Foundation
President David Walker, and business leaders Richard Kovacevich and David O'Reilly.
Education advocate Michelle Rhee speaking in 2013
Growing out of Study Sections that were formed in the
club's early days, today the club has fifteen ongoing member-led fora, each of
which meets frequently to host speakers and engage in discussion on topics
including the arts, bay gourmet (food and wine), Asia-Pacific affairs, business and leadership, environment and
natural resources, grownups (second half of life issues), health and medicine, humanities, international
relations, LGBT issues,
the Middle
East, personal growth, psychology, and science and technology.
An intensive look at a single subject is sponsored each
August through the Club's Platforum, where events are held daily throughout the
month on the topic, examined from the perspective of many different fields.
Annual Platforum topics have included China Rising (2006), Cool Clear
Water (2007), How We Eat (2008), For Richer, for Poorer:
Surviving and Thriving in the Great Recession (2009), and The Ascent of
Woman (2010). The Platforum series include not just lectures and
discussions, but often meals, travel, and experiential learning such as
kayaking on San Francisco Bay (Cool Clear Water).
Inforum is the Club's
division for younger community members. Since its founding in 2002 Inforum has
engaged a new generation in civic discussion through its lively and
controversial programming.
History
The Commonwealth Club was founded in 1903 by Harris Weinstock,
the English-born co-founder of Weinstock's, a
department store in Sacramento, California.[6] Its motto
is "Find the truth, and turn it loose in the world," and its mission
is the non-partisan study of public affairs. The idea for the club came from
Edward F. Adams, the Agricultural Editor at the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. Four prominent
California leaders—University of California president
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, San Francisco Chronicle managing
editor John P. Young, San Francisco Normal School (later San Francisco State University) president
Frederick Burk, and William P. Lawler, a judge who later became a California Supreme Court Justice—cofounded the organization
with Adams. The original name for the Club was "The Agora," which in
Greek means an open place of civic assembly, but it was quickly changed to
"Commonwealth Club," connoting a quest for the common good.
Let’s connect the dots:
Commonwealth Club of California
Lata Krishnan
Shah Commonwealth Club of California
governor, Bill, Hillary & Chelsea
Clinton Foundation.
Note: Peter
G. Peterson Foundation was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), the Committee for
Economic Development, and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Jonathan
Soros’s father, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the People for the American Way, the Media Matters for America, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the Committee for Economic
Development, the Robin Hood
Foundation, the International Rescue Committee, the New America Foundation (think tank), the
Roosevelt Institute, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
James A. Baker III
is an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank).
Madeleine K.
Albright is
an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank).
George P. Shultz is an honorary director at
the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), married to Charlotte
Mailliard Shultz, an advisory board member for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Charlotte
Mailliard Shultz is married to George
P. Shultz, and a governor at the Commonwealth
Club of California.
Ellen O. Tauscher
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think tank), and a governor at the Commonwealth Club of California.
Condoleezza Rice is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), was a governor at the Commonwealth
Club of California, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
James C. Hormel
is a governor at the Commonwealth Club
of California, a director at the People
for the American Way, and was a donor for the Media Matters for America.
Norman
Lear is a director at the People for
the American Way, and an executive producer & writer for All in the Family.
Rob
Reiner is an actor in All in the
Family.
Erik Tarloff was
a writer for All in the Family, and
is married to Laura D'Andrea Tyson.
Laura D'Andrea
Tyson is married to Erik Tarloff,
a professor at the Haas School of
Business, was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a
director at the Peterson Institute for
International Economics, and a director at the New America Foundation.
Richard C. Blum
is a board member at
the Haas School of Business, an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a regent at the University of California.
F. Warren Hellman
was a board member at the Haas School of
Business, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
David M.
Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a trustee at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Kenneth M.
Duberstein is a trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a VP at the Committee for Economic Development.
Peter
G. Peterson Foundation was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development.
George P. Shultz
is an advisory board member for the Peter
G. Peterson Foundation, an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and was a
trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Leonard T. Mendonca
is a co-chairman for the Committee for
Economic Development, and a governor for the Commonwealth Club of California.
Laura
and John Arnold Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), StudentsFirst, and
the New Teacher Project.
Michelle A. Rhee
was the founder of StudentsFirst,
the founder of the New Teacher Project,
and a director at the StudentsFirstNY.
John D. Arnold
was a board member for the New Teacher
Project, and is a co-founder for the Laura
and John Arnold Foundation.
StudentsFirstNY
is an affiliate of StudentsFirst.
Daniel S. Loeb is
a director at the StudentsFirstNY, and
supported same-sex marriage in New
York.
Clifford S.
Asness supported same-sex marriage
in New York, a leadership council member for the Robin Hood Foundation, and is a director at the International Rescue Committee.
Michael R. Bloomberg
was a donor for the Robin Hood
Foundation, an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and is a co-chair for the Risky
Business Project.
ONE Campaign is
a partner at the International Rescue
Committee.
Timothy F. Geithner
is an overseer, director for the International
Rescue Committee, and was the secretary for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Comptroller
of the Currency is a bureau for the U.S.
Department of the Treasury.
Eugene A. Ludwig
was a comptroller for the Comptroller of
the Currency, and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Condoleezza Rice is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a
director at the Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank), was a governor at the Commonwealth Club of California, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
George P. Shultz
is a risk committee member for the Risky
Business Project, an advisory board member for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Donna E. Shalala
is a risk committee member for
the Risky Business Project, an advisory board member for
the Peter G. Peterson Foundation,
the president of the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation, was a fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Shirley Ann
Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), was a
trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development, and a member of the President's
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Peter
G. Peterson Foundation was a funder at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Committee for Economic Development, and
the New America Foundation (think tank).
Eric E. Schmidt is the chairman of the New
America Foundation, was a member of
the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a funder
for the New America Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Terry Tamminen
was a senior fellow & climate policy director for the New America Foundation, and Arnold
Schwarzenegger’s special assistant for energy and environmental
technologies, cabinet secretary.
Jonathan Soros is
a director at the New America Foundation
(think tank), George Soros’s son,
and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt
Institute.
Laura D'Andrea
Tyson is a director at the New
America Foundation, married to Erik
Tarloff, a professor at the Haas
School of Business, was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a director at the Peterson
Institute for International Economics.
Erik Tarloff is
married to Laura D'Andrea Tyson, and
was a writer for All in the Family.
Rob
Reiner is an actor in All in the
Family.
Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt is the chair at the Roosevelt
Institute, and James Roosevelt’s
daughter.
James Roosevelt was
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt & James Roosevelt Jr’s father, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son.
James Roosevelt
Jr. is James Roosevelt’s son, a
director at the America's Health
Insurance Plans, was a director at the Network
for Excellence in Health Innovation,
and an associate commissioner for the Social
Security Administration.
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt’s son was James Roosevelt,
was the president of the Franklin Delano
Roosevelt administration, and attended the Yalta Conference.
Alger
Hiss attended the Yalta Conference
with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR),
and was the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and the president of the Middle
East Policy Council.
James
A. Leach was a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a chairman for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Ratan
N. Tata is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the chair for the RAND's Center for Asia Pacific Policy.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the chairman for the United Nations Foundation.
Muhammad Yunus
is a director at the United Nations
Foundation, and a Nobel Foundation
Nobel peace prize winner.
Mario J. Molina
is a Nobel Foundation Nobel prize
winner for (chemistry), and was a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Peter
G. Peterson Foundation was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), the New America Foundation (think tank), and the Truman Center for National Policy.
William J. Perry
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and an advisory
board member for the Truman Center for
National Policy.
Madeleine K.
Albright an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and an advisory board member for
the Truman Center for National Policy.
Leon E. Panetta
is an advisory board member for the Truman
Center for National Policy.
Kamala D. Harris
is an advisory board member for the Truman
Center for National Policy.
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