John L. Thornton

Professor and Director of Global Leadership, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Retired as president and Co-Chief Operating Officer of the Goldman Sachs Group in 2003. Director and Chief of the Finance Board for Intel (2003-). A director of the Ford Motor Company, News Corporation and the Pacific Century Group, Inc., he is Chairman of the Brookings Institution Board of Trustees. Through his gift, the new John F. Thornton China Center at Brookings will provide recommendations and analysis to inform decision makers in the U.S. and China about the challenges facing China and their implications for a global society. Director or trustee of the Asia Society, the China Institute, the Eisenhower Fellowships, Morehouse College, and the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.