The Council on Foreign Relations is headquartered in New York City. A third of the Council’s members reside in or around New York City, and another third in Washington, DC, and around the nation. Over 160 employees work out of the landmarked Harold Pratt House, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
The Council’s New York headquarters hosts more than 250 events annually, including panel discussions, lectures, interviews, symposia, town hall meetings, film screenings, book clubs, and conference calls. Senior government officials, global leaders, and prominent thinkers regularly come together with Council members as part of the New York Meetings, Studies, and Corporate programs to debate and discuss major foreign policy issues. Accounts of on-the-record Council meetings are available in three formats on CFR.org: transcripts, videos, and audio streams.
The main purpose of these meetings is to provide a nonpartisan forum for informed policy debate. They cover a range of regional and topical issues, with a strong focus on Iraq, energy and the environment, the global war on terrorism, and religion and foreign policy. These activities bring Council members together with senior government officials, world leaders, academic experts, and prominent thinkers to discuss the major foreign policy issues of our time.
The majority of fellows in the Think Tank are based in New York. These fellows contribute to the larger foreign policy debate by writing books, articles, and op-eds on the most important challenges facing the United States and the world. They also write topical reports, books, and other publications.
The Council also has a growing and multifaceted presence in the nation’s capital—the Washington Program—and a dynamic National Program for members living across the country. The Council’s active Corporate Program provides the business community an opportunity to gain new insights into the intersection of politics, economics, and business.
The Council’s New York office is also home to Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal covering international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Founded in 1921, recently it was ranked number one in influence among opinion-leaders in a national study.
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