The Chairman’s Circle, a blue-ribbon support group for the World Affairs Councils of America, was created to raise the profile of our organization and to bring in important funds to promote our mission of “Engaging Grassroots America in World Affairs.” There is no more pressing issue facing us in this century than reaching out to our communities and advancing our mandate: “It’s Your World, Know It!”

Your membership fee of $1,000 allows you individual access to exclusive CC events for one calendar year. Membership is renewable and WACA membership is not necessary for membership in the Chairman’s Circle.

You can join when you register for the 2008 National Conference or by filling out this form.

Membership Benefits:
• An invitation to participate in a private reception and dinner at the World Affairs Councils of America’s National Conference, where CC members will receive special badge recognition. This year’s dinner will be hosted by Amb. James R. Jones, Chairman of the World Affairs Councils of America, and will honor former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former Secretary of State James Baker, the Co-Chairs of the Iraq Study Group.

• Members’ names will be listed on the National Council’s website.

• Special access to a hospitality suite at the National Conference where members can relax between sessions and have an opportunity to exchange ideas with board members and other CC members.

• Monthly newsletters from the World Affairs Councils of America’s National Office.

• Meetings with senators and congressmen, ambassadors and foreign dignitaries, senior military officials, NGO and business leaders, and figures from the media, as well as visits to the State Department, the Pentagon, the United Nations, embassies, and with the US military.

Past programs have included:
• Special briefings at Scotland Yard in London on counterterrorism with Andrew Hayman, Commander of the British Empire

• Meetings with the Serbian Ambassador to the United Nations at his home in New York City

• A day at the State Department

• A private luncheon with the Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

• Meetings at NATO’s Atlantic Headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia

• An overnight tour of the aircrafts carrier USS Roosevelt in Jacksonville, Florida

Thank you to our current members for their support:

Carlos Alvarez, The Gambrinus Company
William Benter 
Phil Drayer      
Milton Eaton, Windham World Affairs Council
James N. Falk, WAC of Dallas/Ft. Worth
Schuyler Foerster, WAC of Pittsburgh
Jon Fox, The Fox Family Foundation
Ward Fredericks, World Affairs Council of the Desert
Barry & Merle Ginsburg
Mimi Chapin Gregory, Naples Council on World Affairs
Karlee  L. Hilliard, Global Center of Greater Cincinnati
Joseph Melookaran, JMA Chartered
Alex Lari, The Claremont Group
Noel V. Lateef, Foreign Policy Association
Sandra Mabry 
Michael Maibach, Maibach Foundation
Firoz Peera      
Michael & Elsa Phillip, Merrill Lynch
Ronald Ritter   
Anna Kristina Sawtelle 
James B. Tapp, Northrop Grumman
Serge Tomassian         
Angela Weck, Peoria Area World Affairs Council
David & Beverly Worthington        
Yousef Zakaria
Maria Wulff, World Affairs Council of Oregon
Maria Zammit, World Affairs Council of Hampton Roads

Help support our programs. For additional information or to join, contact WACA or call (202) 833-4557.