The Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program encourages promising young leaders in government, media, nongovernmental organizations, law, business, finance, and academia to engage in a sustained conversation on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The program allows these younger members to interact with seasoned foreign-policy experts and participate in a wide variety of events designed especially for them. Each year a new class of term members, between the ages of 30 and 36, is elected to a five-year membership term. Committees of term members in New York and Washington, DC, advise the Council leadership and help create programs of particular interest to younger members.
The Term Member Program is supported by a generous gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation
In addition to taking part in the full range of Council activities, the term members also enjoy an array of special events with high-profile speakers, including an annual Term Member Conference, roundtables, trips to financial and governmental institutions around the country, and a one-week-long study trip abroad every two years.
This year's twelfth annual Term Member Conference, entitled Campaign 2008: The Foreign Policy Challenges Ahead, included four plenary sessions on international economics, the war in Iraq, climate change policy, and perspectives from the permanent representatives of China, Germany, and Egypt to the United Nations; fourteen breakout sessions on a variety of timely global issues; and a town hall luncheon with Council President Richard N. Haass
Last year, term members engaged in a Turkey-focused roundtable series, which culminated in a ten-day trip to Belgium and Turkey in May 2007. The group of twenty-five term members that attended benefited from numerous high-level meetings with government leaders, representatives from the business community, and selected nongovernmental organizations in Brussels, Istanbul, and Ankara. Other trips featuring high-level briefings included visits to the Pentagon, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, a live taping of Meet the Press, the New York Stock Exchange, Lockheed Martin headquarters, the International Monetary Fund, and the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Virginia.
For further information about applying for term membership, please contact Scott Bradbury, Program Associate, Membership Affairs, +1-212-434-9484 or sbradbury@cfr.org.
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