History of CNP

CNP Presidents:		CNP Chairs:
1981 - 1985 Ted Van Dyk		1981 - 1983 Terry Sanford
1986 - 1989 Kirk O'Donnell		1983 - 1985 Cyrus Vance
1990 - 1993 Madeleine K. Albright		1985 - 1994 Edmund S. Muskie
1993 - 2003 Maureen S. Steinbruner		1994 - 2000 Michael D. Barnes
2003 - 2009 Tim Roemer		2000 - 2002 Leon E. Panetta
2010 - 2012 Stephen Flynn		2002 - present Peter Kovler
2012 - present Scott Bates

CNP National Advisory Board Chair

2002 - 2009 Leon E. Panetta

Dr. Stephen Flynn became the sixth President of the Center for National Policy on January 1, 2010. His immediate predecessor is Timothy J. Roemer, former six-term member of Congress, and currently the U.S. ambassador to India. From 1993-2003, Maureen S. Steinbruner served as President, succeeding former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright who led the Center for three years prior to her appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. From 1986-1989 the Center's President was the late Kirk O'Donnell, who served as chief counsel to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill. The founding President is Ted Van Dyke, who served in the Johnson Administration as assistant to Vice President Hubert Humphrey

Other CNP Board members have included Robert Rubin, prior to his term as U.S. secretary of the treasury; Wendy Sherman, prior to her appointment as US Ambassador; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas S.Foley; former Republican members of Congress Jack Buechner and Rod Chandler, and former Democratic members of Congress John Brademas and Michael Barnes. Jane Harman and Eleanor Holmes Norton also served on the Board prior to their election to the U.S. House of Representatives.