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Published on April 1, 2005 By Pranay Gupte In Current Events
Col Allen
Editor, the New York Post

Herbert Allen
CEO, Allen & Company

Stanley S. Arkin
Arkin Kaplan

Leon D. Black
Apollo Management

Michael R. Bloomberg
Mayor of New York City

Joyce Brown
President, Fashion Institute of Technology

Arthur Carter
The New York Observer

James Cayne
CEO, Bear Stearns

Kenneth Chenault
Chairman, American Express

Hillary Clinton
United States Senator

William Jefferson Clinton
Former U.S. president

Steven A. Cohen
SAC Capital Advisors

Gail Collins
Editor, Editorial Page, the New York Times

Stephen J. Dannhauser
Chairman, Weil Gotschal & Manges

Dr. Kenneth L. Davis
CEO, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Philippe de Montebello
CEO, the Metropolitan Museum

Vishaka Desai
President, the Asia Society

Robert L. Dilenschneider
CEO, The Dilenschneider Group

Barry Diller
CEO, InterActiveCorp

Jamie Dimon
JP Morgan Chase

Lou Dobbs
CNN

Daniel Doctoroff
Deputy Mayor for Economic Development
Charles Dolan
Chairman of Cablevision

Rev. Floyd Flake
President, Wilberforce University, and Pastor, Allen Methodist Episcopal Church, Queens

Abraham Foxman
National Director, Anti-Defamation League

Paul Fribourg
CEO, Continental Grain

Richard Fuld
CEO, Lehman Brothers

Victor Ganzi
CEO, the Hearst Corporation

Charles A., Gargano
Chairman, Empire State Development

Paul Gigot
Editor, The Wall Street Journal

Rudolph W. Giuliani
Giuliani Associates

Arne Glimcher
Chairman, Pace Wildenstein Gallery

Matthew Goldstein
Chancellor, City University of New York

Derek E. Gordon
CEO, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Vartan Gregorian
President, Carnegie Corporation of New York

John R. Gunn
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations

Dorothy Herman
CEO, Prudential Douglas Elliman

Alan Hevesi
Comptroller, New York State

Richard C. Holbrooke
Perseus Capital

Steven Green
President, S.L. Green

Carl IcahnInvestor

Morton Janklow
Janklow & Nesbit Associates

Vernon E. Jordan
Lazard Frères

Peter S. Kalikow
CEO, H.J.Kalikow

Gershon Kekst
Kekst & Company

Raymond Kelly
Police Commissioner of New York

Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger Associates

Joel Klein
Chancellor, New York City Schools

Sallie Krawcheck
CFO, Citigroup

Leonard Lauder
CEO, Estee Lauder

Shelly Lazarus
CEO, Ogilvy & Mather

Martin Lipton
Wachtel, Lipton

Howard Lorber
Chairman, Prudential Douglas Elliman

Donald Marron
CEO, Lightyear Capital

Eugene McGrath
CEO, Con Edison

Henry McKinnell
CEO, Pfizer

Sonny Mehta
President and Editor-in-Chief, Alfred A. Knopf Inc.

Gifford Miller
City Council President

Lawrence J. Mone
President, the Manhattan Institute

Ann Moore
Chairman & CEO, Time Inc.

Robert M. Morgenthau
Manhattan District Attorney

Rupert Murdoch
Chairman, News Corporation

S. I. Newhouse
Chairman, Conde Nast

Dr. Herbert Pardes
CEO, Columbia-Presbyterian

Richard Parsons
CEO, Time-Warner

George Pataki
Governor of New York State

Henry M. Paulson
CEO, Goldman Sachs

Joseph Perella
Morgan Stanley

Ronald O. Perelman
CEO, Revlon

Peter G. Peterson
Senior Chairman, the Blackstone Group

Charles A. Prince
CEO, Citigroup

Rep. Charles Rangel
U.S. House of Representatives

Kenneth Raske
President, Greater New York Hospitals Association

Bruce C. Ratner
CEO, Forest City Ratner Companies

Steven L. Rattner
The Quadrangle Group

Sumner Redstone
CEO, Viacom

David Remnick
Editor, The New Yorker

Dennis Rivera
President, 1199 Service Employees International

Charlie Rose
PBS

Jane Rosenthal
Tribeca Film Festival

Steve Roth
CEO, Vornado Realty

Howard J. Rubenstein
President, Rubenstein Associates

Robert E. Rubin
Chairman, Citigroup Executive Committee

William R. Rudin
President, Rudin Management Company

Ian Schrager
Developer and owner of fancy hotels

Charles Schumer
United States Senator

Stephen A. Schwarzman
CEO, the Blackstone Group

Ivan Seidenberg
CEO, Verizon

Rev. Al Sharpton
National Action Headquarters

Muriel Siebert
CEO, Muriel Siebert & Company

Sheldon Silver
Speaker, New York State Assembly

Larry Silverstein
CEO, Silverstein Properties

Russell Simmons
Rush Communications

Jerry I. Speyer
CEO, Tishman Speyer

Eliot Spitzer
NYS Attorney General

George Steinbrenner
Owner of Yankees
Mitchell S. Steir
CEO, Studley

Sir Howard Stringer
CEO, Sony Corporation

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Chairman, the New York Times Company

James Tisch
CEO, the Loews Corporation

Jonathan Tisch
Chairman, NYC & Co.

Donald J. Trump
The Trump Organization

Bruce Wasserstein
Lazard Frères

Sanford I. Weill
Chairman, Citigroup

Randi Weingarten
President, United Federation of Teachers

Fred Wilpon
CEO, Sterling Equities; CEO, Mets

Anna Wintour
Editor, Vogue

Mortimer Zuckerman
CEO, Boston Properties

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