Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Updated List of Atlantic Council Donors

Atlantic Council has recently updated its donors list, and Think Tank Watch has been analyzing the list for interesting tidbits.  Donors include US government agencies, foreign government agencies, corporations (both domestic and foreign), other think tanks and think tankers, universities, foundations, law firms, PR firms, consulting firms, foreign stock exchanges, cultural centers, former government officials, and others.  Here is what we found:

  •  US government entities include: US State Department, US Air Force, US Army, US Marines.
  • Large corporations: Airbus, Chevron, Google, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Southern Company, Thomson Reuters, BP, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Northrup Grumman, Panasonic, SAIC, United Technologies, Barclays Capital, Coca-Cola Co., ConocoPhillips, ENI, FedEx, McAfee, Microsoft, Target, Boeing, Bloomberg, Caterpillar, Daimler, Gallup, HSBC, Dow Chemical, Comcast, Rolls-Royce, Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ. 
  • Foreign governments: United Arab Emirates (UAE; which gives the think tank at lesast $1 million), Kingdom of Bahrain, City of London, Temasek Holdings (Singapore), Embassy of Hungary, Ministry of Defense of Finland, Embassy of Latvia, Estonian Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Defense of Georgia, Ministry of Defense of Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Slovakia, Embassy of Czech Republic.
  • Other think tanks and think tankers: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Nicolas Veron of Bruegel (formerly at PIIE), Anne-Marie Slaughter (head of New America Foundation), Michele Flournoy (head of Center for a New American Security), Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution.
  • Other notable entities: UCLA, Georgetown University Law Center, The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Scowcroft Group, Edelman, McLarty Associates, Istanbul Stock Exchange.

Here is a Think Tank Watch story from 2013 about Atlantic Council revealing its donors after Chuck Hagel, then-Chairman of Atlantic Council, had to reveal who funded his think tank during his nomination process for Defense Secretary.

The most interesting thing from the latest donor disclosures is probably the number of outside think tanks and think tankers who donate to Atlantic Council.  And just like for other think tanks, colleges and universities donate to Atlantic Council.

 Below is the full list that Atlantic Council has disclosed, lumped into categories by donation amount:


**********
 ǂ denotes a sponsor of the 2014 Wroclaw Global Forum
denotes a sponsor of the 2014 Energy and Economic Summit
deceased


$1,000,000 and above

Adrienne Arsht
Bahaa Hariri
United Arab Emirates

$250,000 - $999,999

Airbusǂ
BMCE Bank
Bromak EOOD
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
Chevron◊
Corporate Commercial Bank
Hunton & Williams
Kingdom of Bahrain
George Lund
MNG Holding Company, Inc.◊
Dinu Patriciu
Brent Scowcroft
Smith Richardson Foundation
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S.◊
US State Department

$100,000 - $249,000

Actidea
Anonymous
Atlantic Advocacy Fund Inc.
Thomas L. Blair
Bob Woodruff Foundation
Central Europe Energy Partners AISBL (CEEP)◊
Cheniere Energy, Inc.◊
Chopivsky Family Foundation
Defense Ministry of Norway
Dentons LLP◊
Genel Enerji◊
Googleǂ
Istanbul Stock Exchange◊
Lockheed Martin Corporationǂ
Macarthur Foundation
Alexander Mirtchev
OCP S.A.
Ploughshares Fund
Raytheonǂ
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
SAAB
Southern Companyǂ
TECRO
The Morganti Group
Thomson Reuters
Ukrainian World Congress
Olin Wethington

$50,000 - $99,000

ACE Group
African Rainbow Minerals
Tewodros Ashenafi
Audiovisuelle International
Bank of America Corporation
BOTAS - Boru Hatlari Ile Petrol Tasima Anonim Sirk◊
BP◊
Calik Enerji Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.◊
Michael Calvey
CEZ Group◊
City of London
DRS Technologies, Inc.
ETH Zurich
ExxonMobil ◊
Julie Finley
Ronald M. Freeman
Frontera Resources
Robert S. Gelbard
General Electric ◊
Infosys
Peter Kovarcik†
Krauss Maffei Wegmann
John Macomber
McGraw Hill Financial
Meads International, Inc.ǂ
Georgette Mosbacher
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Ahmet Oren
Panasonic Corporation of North America
W. DeVier Pierson
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Republic of Cyprus
RTI International Metals, Inc.
SAIC
SICPA S.A.
Skoll Global Imperatives
Standard Chartered Bank
Temasek Holdings
James C. Temerty
Textron
The Blackstone Group
Tishman Speyer Properties LP
TPAO◊
Transatlantic Policy Network
Tupras◊
United Technologies Corporationǂ
Zorlu Enerji◊

$25,000 - $49,999

Allianz SE◊
American Water
Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ
Barclays Capital
Victor L. Chu
Coca-Cola Company
ConocoPhillips
Steven and Roberta Denning
DEPA Public Gas Corporation of Greece◊
Markus Dohle
Conrado Dornier
Edelman
Ekkou VP SRL◊
Embassy of Hungary
ENI
FedEx Corporation
Fluor Corporation
Garanti Bank◊
C. Boyden Gray
Grupa Lotos S.A.
Grupo Salinas
Guggenheim Partners, LLC
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd.◊
James L. Jones, Jr.
Leidos, Inc.
LexisNexis Group
Lucky Cement Limited
Mannheim LLC
MBDA Incorporated
McAfee, Inc.
McLarty Associates
Microsoft Corporation
Ministry of Defence of Finland
Mol Group◊
Moroccan-American Cultural Center
MVM Magyar Villamos Muvek Zrt.◊
William H. Nixon
Novartis Corporation
OMV Petrol Ofisi A.S.◊
Andrew Prozes
Publicis Groupe
Renaissance Strategic Advisors
Jeffrey A. Rosen
SAS
Scowcroft Group
Alan J. Spence
Stfa Yatirim Holding A.S.◊
Target Corporation
Thales USA
The Boeing Company
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) AG◊
Turkerler Holding, A.S.◊
US Air Force
US Army
US Chamber of Commerce
US Marines

$10,000 - $24,999

Odeh Aburdene
Accuron Technologies Limited
Baker & McKenzie LLPǂ
Bloomberg L.P.
Caterpillar Inc.
Center For Strategic & International Studies
John Chapoton
C. Diane Christensen
CISCO - Basic Solutions Corp.
Daimler
DBS Bank
Deloitte Services
Embassy of Latvia
Estonian Ministry of Defence
Alan H. Fleischmann
Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
Gallup, Inc.
Sherri Goodman
Gokhan Gundogdu
Stephen J. Hadley
Ian Hague
Brian C. McK. Henderson 
Henry Schein, Inc.
Mary L. Howell
HSBC
Instititue of International Education
Franklin D. Kramer
Loews Corporation
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
Arnold L. Punaro
Rockefeller & Co.
Charles O. Rossotti
Shearman & Sterling, LLP
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Syngenta Corporation
TD International LLC
The Dow Chemical Company
The Soufan Group
Enzo Viscusi
Water Standard Company LLC
John C. Whitehead†

$5,000 - $9,999

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC
Aspen Healthcare Services
British High Commission
CH2M Hill
Charles F. Wald
Comcast Corporation
Corsair Capital
Dov S. Zakheim
DynCorp
Ellen O. Tauscher
Frederick Kempe and Pamela Meyer
Globis Capital Partners
Harlan K. Ullman
Jan M. Lodal
Jay Walker
John Gastright
Judith A. Miller
Litespeed Management, LLC
Michael V. Hayden
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
Ministry of Defense of Montenegro
Movalis
New Mountain Capital
Paul Twomey
Peter J. Tanous
Republic of Macedonia Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Robert Hormats
Robert M. Kimmitt
Rodel Charitable Foundation of DE
Rolls-Royce of North America
John Megrue
Semnani Family Foundation
The Asan Institute For Policy Studies
The Hand Foundation
The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
Thomas Nides
Thomas J. Edelman
VT Systems
William E. Mayer
Wolfgang Friedrich Ischinger

$1,000 - $4,999

John R. Allen
David D. Aufhauser
Elizabeth F. Bagley
Sheila C. Bair
Base Per Altezza
Peter Behr
Margaret Bennett
Bertelsmann Foundation
Susan M. Blaustein
Julia Chang Bloch
Harold Brown
R. Nicholas Burns
Byron Callan
Capital Alpha Partners, LLC
James E. Cartwright
Peter Cunniffe
Cyber Conflict Studies Association
Ivo H. Daalder
Paula J. Dobriansky
Christopher J. Dodd
Stuart E. Eizenstat
Embassy of Slovakia
Embassy of the Czech Republic
eNGO Network on CCS
Formiche
Lawrence P. Fisher II
Michele Flournoy
Paul R. S. Gebhard
Georgetown University Law Center
Rita E. Hauser
Robert Hunter
Timothy Adams
George A. Joulwan
Stephen R. Kappes 
Zalmay M. Khalilzad
Henry A. Kissinger
Geraldine S. Kunstadter
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Richard L. Lawson
Lotus International
Magellan Aerospace Corporation
Wendy W. Makins
Eric D.K. Melby
Franklin C. Miller
George E. Moose
Virginia Mulberger
Joseph S. Nye
Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum
Raul Perea-Henze
Thomas R. Pickering
Pioneer Natural Resources
Quincy Jones Productions, Inc.
Kirk A. Radke
Joseph W. Ralston
Nanako Sakai
Sandia National Laboratories
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Walter B. Slocombe
Paula Stern
John S. Tanner
Texas Water Recycling Association
The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation
UCLA
Philip Verveer
Mary Yates

Up to $999

Michael Allen
Kurt Amend
Daniel J. Arbess
Stuart Archer
Cresencio S. Arcos
Victor H. Ashe
Noris D. Balabanian
Robert M. Beecroft
J.D. Bindenagel
Martin Bollinger
Arnaud de Borchgrave†
Christopher Bott
James Bowen
David Buffaloe
Theodore Hopkins Bunzel
Edward J. Burger, Jr.
Keith Ross Butler
CD Global Strategies Group LLC
Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings
Sandra L. Charles
Frances D. Cook
James De Francia
Rob de Wijk
Mary B. DeRosa
Joseph J. Drach, Jr.
Glenn D. Dunmire
William Ebert
Pantea Fiuzi Farkhan
Francis Finelli
Lucy Reilly Fitch
Randall Fort
Andrew D. Frank
Laurie Fulton
Alice Gast
Glenn Gerstell
Carol Giacomo
Richard W. Graber
James Greene
Michael Hanna
Harry Harding, Jr.
David P. Harris
Scott Harris†
Steven Hefter
E.C. Michael Higgins
Jeffrey Hoffman
James R. Hogg
Barry B. Hughes
Brian A. Hunter
Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science
Bobby R. Inman
Jason Jarrell
Roger Kirk
Kurt J. Klingenberger
Martin Klingst
Steven B. Klinsky
Stefan Kornelius
Tom C. Korologos
Matthew Lauer
Eric L. Lewis
Malcolm Lovell, Jr.
Clay Lowery
Gerhard Mally
Ronald Marks
Margarita Mathiopoulos
Jules Frank Mermoud
Mark Meyer
R. Garrett Mitchell
Michael Moore
Powell Moore
David Morey
Dambisa Moyo
Varoges Muradian
Terence Murphy
Eugene L. Nardelli
Sandra Navidi
Mark Nihols
William A. Nitze
Norman F. Oblon
Eileen O'Connor
Peter Pace
Sally Painter
Walter Parchomenko
Jesper Pedersen
Yannis Perlepes
Mary Ann Peters
Philip Pilevsky
William A. Plapinger
Joseph A. Presel
John Price
Pamela Quanrud
Henrik Fogh Rasmussen
Charles Ries
Christina Rocca
Zvi S. Rome
Ann E. Rondeau
Daniel A. Russell
Steven E. Schmidt
Mark Schwendler
Andrew Shapiro
Stephen Shapiro
Matthew T. Sherman
Cenk Sidar
Jeffrey M. Siegal
Pamela H. Smith
Daniel Speckhard
Solveig B. Spielmann
Walter E. Stadtler
James Steinberg
Patrick Stephenson
Eric Stewart
Francesco Stipo
Nigel J. Sutton
Frank A. Tapparo
John F. Tefft
Jay Timmons
Olesya Tkacheva
Mamuka Tsereteli
USAID Colombia
Marten H.A. van Heuven
David Van Buren
Nicolas Veron
Samuel S. Visner
Mark Vlasic
Don Wallace, Jr.
Leigh Warner
Ruth Wedgwood
James Wildman
Samuel Zega

**********