World Policy Institute

The World Policy Institute at New School University in New York is a research and education policy center that seeks innovative solutions to critical problems facing the United States and the world. WPI has been a source of informed policy leadership for close to 40 years. It is renowned for its cutting-edge analysis on managing the global market economy, constructing a workable system for collective security, and fostering civil society. [1]

Its three priority areas are:

• policy proposals "on the measures needed for the management of a world market economy, the development of a workable system of collective security, and the creation of an active transnational civil society";
• to "train journalists, policymakers, business and civic leaders to be capable of understanding emerging world problems and of reconciling the often competing demands of globalization and national policy";
• to "nurture a new generation of writers and public intellectuals committed to internationalist thinking and to provide students in the New School community with an opportunity to gain practical experience in policy research and advocacy on global issues". [2]

Large Gifts and Grants 2004/05

$100,000+

• Anonymous

$25,000+

• Walter Eberstadt
• Henry Arnhold
• Jean Cluett
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• Arsenault Family Foundation
• Christopher Reynolds Foundation
• Town Creek Foundation
• Proteus Fund
• David Brown
• Colombe Foundation
• Ploughshares Foundation
• John Watts

2004/05 Annual Report (Pdf)

Advisory Board

• Walter Eberstadt, Chairman, WPI Advisory Board, Limited Managing Director, Lazard Freres and Company
• James L. Abernathy, Managing Partner, The Abernathy MacGregor Group, Inc.
• Robert C. Alexander, President, Alexander & Associates
• Henry H. Arnhold, Co-chairman, Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder, Inc.
• Oscar Arias Sanchez, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former President of Costa Rica
• Carroll Brown, US Diplomat (retired)
• David Brown, President, Penobscot
• Benjamin Cohen, Chairman, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
• Milton Cooper, Kimco Realty
• Pierre J. de Vegh, Managing Director, Carret Asset Management
• David L. Golub, Golub Capital
• Nadine Hack, President, beCause Global Consulting
• Jan Inscho, Capital Guardian Trust
• Jonathan Kagan, Lazard Freres and Company
• Robert Levinson, Chairman, Levcor International
• John Madden, Shearman & Sterling LLP
• Peter Marber, President, The Atlantic Funds LLC
• Stanley Nabi, Vice Chairman, Silvercrest Asset Management Group
• Bruce Paisner, President, Hearst Entertainment Syndication
• Ann Phillips, philanthropist
• Frederick Schwarz, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• Thomas Valenzuela, President, Valenzuela Capital Management, Inc.
• Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation
• Mary Van Evera, ex-officio
• John Watts, Fischer, Francis, Trees & Watts
• Daniel Yergin, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
• William Zabel, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
• Dieter Zander, Natexis Bleichroeder, Inc.

2004/05 Annual Report (Pdf)

Related SourceWatch

• William D. Hartung - presidents fellow at WPI

Contact information

World Policy Institute
220 Fifth Avenue, 9th fl.
New York, NY 10001
Telephone: 212.481.5005
Fax: 212.481.5009
Web:http://www.worldpolicy.org