Aspen Institute
 Aspen Institute       | |
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| Founder | Walter Paepcke |
| Headquarters | 1 Dupont Circle NW Suite #700 |
| Type | • Research institute • think tank |
| Subgroups | • Aspen Institute Italia • Aspen Institute Germany • Institut Aspen France • Aspen Strategy Group |
| Sponsored by | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Democracy Fund, Koch family foundations, Lumina Foundation, Omidyar Network, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Ford Foundation |
| Subpage | •Aspen Institute/New Voices Fellowship |
A highly funded (almost $100M) think tank stacked with establishment insiders.
Funding
The group is funded by foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
Aspen Strategy Group
In 2013: The executive director was David M. Rowe. The co-chairs were: Joseph Nye, Brent Scowcroft.
Other members were Graham Allison, Richard Armitage, Dick Cheney, David Gergen, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, William Webster, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, Robert Zoellick, Madeleine Albright, Eliot Cohen, John Deutch, Dianne Feinstein, Robert Gates, Richard Haass, Chuck Hagel, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Sam Nunn, Thomas O'Gara, John Podesta, Strobe Talbott, William Perry, Dov Zakheim, Philip Zelikow.
Aspen Security Forum
Speakers at the Aspen Security Forum:[1]: Michael Chertoff, Stephen Hadley, Dennis Blair, Michael Hayden, Cofer Black, Gilles de Kerchove, Robert Gallucci, Richard Ben-Veniste, Brian Michael Jenkins, Janet Napolitano, David Cohen, John Negroponte, Raymond Kelly. The moderators were Wolf Blitzer, John King, Michael Isikoff, and Maurice Sonnenberg is also involved.
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
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| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Very influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health. |
| Democracy Fund | Finances numerous organizations as part of effort to control the narrative. Founded by Pierre Omidyar in 2011. |
| Koch family foundations | Controlled by the billionaire Koch brothers, who finance the 'right' in US politics when they say the right things. |
| Lumina Foundation | |
| Omidyar Network | "A philanthropic investment firm" |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund | |
| The Ford Foundation | In addition to its own billionaire agenda, also known to have been $$$ middleman for covert CIA funding. |
