A prestigious group of political leaders and scholars have joined the Brademas Center’s Advisory Council offering counsel on current activities and future programs.

John Brademas
Chairman

Mickey Edwards
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-OK); Director, Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership, The Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C.

Geraldine A. Ferraro
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY); 1984 Vice Presidential Nominee; Executive Vice President and Head of the Public Affairs Practice, The Global Consulting Group

Lee Hamilton
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-IN); President & Director of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.

Trent Lott
Former Member of the U.S. Senate (R-MS)

Leon Panetta
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-CA); Director, Panetta Institute, California State University

Charles B. Rangel
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY)

Paul S. Sarbanes
Former Member of the U.S. Senate (D-MD)

Philip R. Sharp
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-IN); President, Resources for the Future

Christopher Shays
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-CT)

Olympia J. Snowe
Member of the U.S. Senate (R-ME)

Thomas Bender
University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, Director, International Center for Advanced Studies, NYU

Nigel Bowles
CUF Lecturer in Politics and Balfour Fellow in Politics, St Anne's College, University of Oxford

Alan Brinkley
Provost and Allan Nevins Professor of History, Columbia University

Douglas Brinkley
Distinguished Professor of History, Director, The Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization, Tulane University

George W. Downs, Jr
Dean for the Social Sciences, NYU

Elizabeth Drew
Author/Journalist

Richard F. Fenno, Jr.
William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Rochester

Alton Frye
Presidential Senior Fellow Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations

Thomas E. Mann
Senior Fellow, Governance Studies and W. Averell Harriman Chair Brookings Institution

David Mayhew
Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Norman J. Ornstein
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Ronald M. Peters, Jr.
Regents' Professor and Former Director, The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma

Catharine R. Stimpson
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, NYU

Julian E. Zelizer
Professor of History, Boston University