Steven L. Miller
Chair, Baker Institute Board of Advisors
Chairman and President, SLM Discovery Ventures, Inc.
Former Chairman, President and CEO, Shell Oil Company
J.D. Bucky Allshouse
Attorney, J.D. Bucky Allshouse, P.C.
His Excellency Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, Ph.D.
Advisor to the Emir of Qatar
The Honorable Hushang Ansary
Chairman, Parman Enterprises LLC
James A. Baker IV
Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P.
E. William Barnett
Retired Chair, Baker Institute Board of Advisors
Retired Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees
Retired Managing Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P.
Laura D. Bellows
President and Chairman, W. S. Bellows Construction Corporation
Angela Blanchard
President Emerita, BakerRipley
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell
Senior Pastor, Windsor Village United Methodist Church
Clarence P. Cazalot Jr.
Chair, Program and Development Committee, Baker Institute Board of Advisors
Retired Chairman, President and CEO, Marathon Oil Corporation
Stephen I. Chazen, Ph.D.
Retired CEO, Occidental Petroleum Corporation
The Honorable Peter R. Coneway
Managing Director, Riverstone Holdings LLC
Former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein
James W. Crownover
Former Director, McKinsey & Company
Retired Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees
The Honorable Linnet Deily
Former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
The Honorable Charles W. Duncan Jr.
Chairman, Duncan Capital Management, Inc.
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
Former Chairman and CEO, Sunoco Inc. and Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.
Armando Garza
Chairman, Alfa
Claudio X. González
Chairman of the Board, Kimberly-Clark de México
Jeffery D. Hildebrand
Executive Chairman and Founder, Hilcorp Energy Company
Gerald D. Hines
Founder and Chairman, Hines
Franci Neely
Philanthropist and Former Trial Attorney
Armen Orujyan, Ph.D.
Founding CEO, Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
Harry M. Reasoner
Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Former Managing Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP
David Rhodes
President, CBS News
Beth Robertson
President, Cockspur, Inc.
President, Westview Development, Inc.
The Honorable John F.W. Rogers
Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board of Advisers, Goldman Sachs & Company
Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Management
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
A.R. “Tony” Sanchez Jr.
Chairman and CEO, Sanchez Oil & Gas Corporation
Marc J. Shapiro
Chair, Governance and Nominating Committee, Baker Institute Board of Advisors
Non-Executive Chairman, Chase Bank of Texas
Former Vice Chairman, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
L.E. Simmons
Founder and President, SCF Partners
The Honorable Warren W. Tichenor
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva
President, W. W. Tichenor & Co., Inc.
Robert B. Tudor III
Chairman and CEO, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.
Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees
John Eddie Williams Jr.
Founder and Managing Partner, Williams Kherkher
Randa Duncan Williams
Chairman, Enterprise Products Company
Wallace S. Wilson
Retired Chairman, Wilson Industries
Ex Officio Members
The Honorable Madeleine Korbel Albright
64th U.S. Secretary of State
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group
The Honorable James A. Baker, III
61st U.S. Secretary of State
Honorary Chair, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy
The Honorable Edward P. Djerejian
Director, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy
Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria and to Israel
David W. Leebron
President, Rice University
Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.)
65th U.S. Secretary of State
Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff