People

Current Members

1. L.E. Simmons
   Chair, Baker Institute Board of Advisors
   Founder and President, SCF Partners
2. Robert B. Tudor III
   Vice Chair, Baker Institute Board of Advisors
   Founder and CEO, Artemis Energy Partners
   Retired Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees
3. Greg L. Armstrong
   Co-founder and Retired Chairman and CEO, Plains All American Pipeline LP
4. Norman Augustine
   Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin
5. James A. Baker IV
   Retired Partner, Baker Botts LLP
6. Carin Barth
   Co-founder and President, LB Capital, Inc.
7. Laura Bellows
   CEO and Chairman, Bellows Construction
8. Donald Bowers
   Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
9. Jay A. Brown
   Chief Executive Officer, David Weekley Homes
10. Benjamin Cheng
    Principal, Transnational Management Limited
11. Danny David
    Managing Partner, Baker Botts, LLC
12. Haydeh Davoudi
    Owner and Operator, EPIC Sporthorses
13. Thomas J. Falk
    Retired Chairman and CEO, Kimberly-Clark
14. Ann Fox
    President and CEO, Nine Energy Service
15. Jeffery D. Hildebrand
    Executive Chairman and Founder, Hilcorp Energy Company
16. Laura Hines-Pierce
    Co-Chief Executive Officer, Hines
17. Paul Hobby
    Co-founder, Genesis Park
18. Robert Steven Kaplan
    Former President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
19. José-Alberto Lima
    Founding Member, Quartz Energy Partners
20. Fred Lummis
    Chairman, Platform Partners LLC
21. Arshad Matin
    Chief Executive Officer, Avetta
22. Franci Neely
    Philanthropist and Former Trial Attorney
23. Armando Perez
    Executive Vice President, H-E-B Houston
24. Gary R. Petersen
    Co-founder, EnCap Investments LP
25. Wade Rakes
    Chief Executive Officer, CareQuest Institute for Oral Health
26. C. Park Shaper
    CEO, Seis Holdings, LLC
27. Ruth Simmons
    Distinguished Fellow and Advisor to the President, Rice University
28. Ann Stern
    President and CEO, Houston Endowment
29. Guillermo “Memo” Treviño
    President, Southern Distributing Company, Inc.
30. Uwem Ukpong
    Vice President Global Services, Amazon Web Services
31. Gretchen Watkins
    Global CEO, Energy and Sustainability Leader
32. John Eddie Williams, Jr.
    Founder and Managing Partner, Williams Hart
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Life Members

1. His Excellency Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, Ph.D.
   Advisor, Amiri Diwan, Qatar
2. Clarence P. Cazalot Jr.
   Retired Chairman, President and CEO, Marathon Oil Corporation
3. James W. Crownover
   Former Director, McKinsey & Company
   Retired Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees
4. The Honorable Linnet Deily
   Former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
   Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
5. The Honorable Edward P. Djerejian
   Founding Director, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy
   Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria and to Israel
6. Claudio X. González
   Chairman of the Board, Kimberly-Clark de México
7. Steven L. Miller 
   Chairman and President, SLM Discovery Ventures, Inc.
   Former Chairman, President and CEO, Shell Oil Company
8. Beth Robertson
   GP, Bald Cypress Investments
   President, Cockspur, Inc.
9. The Honorable John F.W. Rogers
   Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board of Directors, Goldman Sachs & Company      
   Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Management Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
10. A.R. "Tony" Sanchez Jr.
    Chairman and CEO, Sanchez Oil and Gas Company
11. Marc J. Shapiro
    Former Vice Chairman, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
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Ex Officio Members

The Honorable James A. Baker, III
61st U.S. Secretary of State
Honorary Chair, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy

The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
67th U.S. Secretary of State

Reginald DesRoches
President, Rice University

Robert T. Ladd
Managing Partner, Stellus Capital Management
Chairman and CEO, Stellus Capital Investment Corporation
Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees

The Honorable David M. Satterfield
Director, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
Former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon and to Turkey
Former Presidential Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues