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Board of Directors
CNP is governed by a Board of Directors
experienced in government
and the private and non-profit sectors. Peter
Kovler, Director of the
Marjorie Kovler Fund, is chairman, succeeding
Leon Panetta, former
White House chief of staff.
The founding chairman was Terry Sanford, whose career included service as governor of North Carolina, president of Duke University and U.S. senator. Cyrus Vance and Edmund Muskie, two former U.S. secretaries of state, also chaired CNP's Board of Directors.
Other CNP Board members have included Robert Rubin, prior to his term as U.S. secretary of the treasury; 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.
Board of Directors
| Title | Name | Affiliation |
| Chairman | Peter Kovler | The Marjorie Kovler Fund, Washington, DC |
| President | Scott Bates | Center for National Policy, Washington, DC |
| Counsel | Michael Evans | K&L Gates, Washington, DC |
| Director | Michael Barnes | Center for International Policy, Washington, DC |
| Director | John Brademas | New York University, New York, NY |
| Director | Rev. Cn. Robert J. Brooks | Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, Storrs, CT |
| Director | Jack Buechner | Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., Washington, DC |
| Director | Christopher G.
Caine | Mercator XXI, Washington,
DC |
| Director | Robert Cavnar | Milagro Exploration, Houston, TX |
| Director | Elizabeth
Folsom | Washington, DC |
| Director | John Freidenrich | Regis Management Company, Palo Alto, CA |
| Director | John
Gannon | BAE Systems, Arlington,
VA |
| Director | David Geanacopoulos | Volkswagen of America, Washington, DC |
| Director | Daniel Glickman | Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC |
| Director | Lester Hyman | Washington, DC |
| Director | Lawrence
Kiern | Winston & Strawn, Washington,
DC |
| Director | Laura
Liswood | Women World Leaders, Washington,
DC |
| Director | Paul
McHale | McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP,
Washington, DC |
| Director | Maurice Tempelsman | Lazare Kaplan International, New York, NY |
| Director | Peter
Thoren | Access Industries, New York,
NY |
