FACTSHEET: American Enterprise Institute, AEI
DETAILS
1150 17th Street NW.Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-5800
Fax: 202-862-7177
With funding from conservative foundations and large corporations, AEI is one of the richest and most influential think tanks in the U.S. Areas of concern include both foreign and domestic policy, including global warming.
AEI promotes neo-conservative ideals and has close ties to the current Bush Administration. On February 26, 2003 President Bush was the key-note speaker at the American Enterprise Institute. He enthused that, at AEI, "Some of the finest minds of our nation are at work on some of the greatest challenges to our nation. You do such good work that my administration has borrowed twenty such minds. I want to thank them for their service" (Quoted by J. Pilger (2004) the Case for Civil Disobedience in Tell Me Lies Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq, ed. D. Miller, Pluto Press, p25)
AEI has been an avid opponent of the Kyoto protocol, as well as most other environmental regulations. AEI climate science skeptics include James K. Glassman, also of ExxonMobil-funded Tech Central Station.
ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond is on the AEI board of trustees. ExxonMobil gave AEI approximately $925,000 between 1998 and 2003.
KEY QUOTES
29 April, 2004
"Take global climate policy, long a favorite bludgeon for the enviro-lobby. Environmental activists and foreign leaders have metaphorically all but shot, buried, exhumed, drawn, quartered, and cast to the four winds the Bush administration for 'abandoning' the Kyoto global warming treaty. Last year, however, proved to be a watershed in global climate policy and science that may vindicate the President's decision. For starters, the Kyoto treaty was politically doomed when Russia finally rejected it. Their reason? Putin's economic minister Andrei Illarionov told reporters the treaty would place 'significant limitations on the economic growth of Russia.' This was an especially serious setback for Kyoto backers, as the treaty's emissions-trading provisions already granted Russia a sweetheart economic deal."
Source: "Where Are the Weapons of Mass Environmental Destruction?" AEOnline 4/29/04
1 September, 2001
"The key features of the climate change debate are large degrees of uncertainty and a long time horizon. Although it is fairly well-established that the Earth's atmosphere has warmed somewhat (one degree Fahrenheit) during the past century, it's not clear why this happened. The warming may have been due to human impositions (the burning of fossil fuels and other incidents of industrial growth), or to natural solar or climate variations, or to some of each. Whatever the causes, we don't know if future warming trends will be large or small, or whether the net environmental and economic consequences (including both beneficial and harmful effects) may be large or small."
Source: "The Kyoto Treaty Deserved to Die" AEOnline, 9/1/01
DEEDS
2 August, 2002
Wrote to President Bush discouraging him from attending the UN Summit on Sustainable Development. Bush did not attend.
Source: "Corporate-funded Lobbyists Aimed to Sabotage Johannesburg Summit," Africa News, 8/19/2002
FUNDING
American Enterprise Institute has received $3,615,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
1998
$200,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source: Exxon Education Foundation Dimensions 1998 report
2000
$240,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
general support
Source: ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990
2001
$225,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2001 Worldwide Giving Report
2001
$5,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
annual dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2001 Worldwide Giving Report
2002
$250,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
225K for general support, 25 K for project support
Source: ExxonMobil 2002 Worldwide Giving Report
2002
$5,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
annual dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2002 Worldwide Giving Report
2002
$5,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Annual Dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2002 Worldwide Giving Report
2003
$5,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Annual Dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report
2003
$225,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report
2004
$5,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Annual Dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report
2004
$225,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
General Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report
2005
$240,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Annual Dinner ($5,000) and General Operating Support ($235,000)
Source: ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report
2006
$5,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Annual dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report
2006
$235,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
General operating support
Source: ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report
2007
$240000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2007 Worldwide Giving Report
2007
$240,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2007 Worldwide Giving Report
2007
$240,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2007 Worldwide Giving Report
2009
$235,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source: ExxonMobil 2009 Worldwide Contributions and Community Investments
2010
$245000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source: ExxonMobil 2010 Worldwide Giving Report
2011
$295,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source: ExxonMobil corporate funding 2011, public policy
2012
$250,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source: ExxonMobil corporate funding 2012, public policy
KEY PEOPLE
Michael Fumento
former resident fellow
Source: CLEAR d-base
Christopher DeMuth
President, Scholar
Source: www.aei.org
Newt Gingrich
Senior Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
James K. Glassman
Senior Fellow and Editor-In-Chief, The American
Source: AEI Glassman bio May 2007
Robert W. Hahn
Resident Scholar
Source: www.aei.org
Steven F. Hayward
F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Richard Perle
Resident Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Lee R. Raymond
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Murray L. Weidenbaum
Council of Academic Advisors
Source: www.aei.org
Roger Bate
Visiting Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Samuel Thernstrom
Managing Editor, AEI Press, and Director, W. H. Brady Program on Culture and Freedom
Source: www.aei.org
Jeremy Rabkin
Council of Academic Advisors member
Source: www.aei.org
Dick Cheney
former Senior Fellow, former Trustee, AEI Speaker
Source: www.aei.org
Kenneth Green
Resident Scholar
Source: AEI website (2007)
Karl Zinsmeister
American Enterprise Institute - J. B. Fuqua Fellow
Source: Philamnthropy Roundtable - Karl Zinsmeister
Charles Koch
Charles Koch's foundation has funded AEI
Source: American Enterprise Institute - Koch funded seminar series
PEOPLE
Joseph Antos
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Leon Aron
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Claude E. Barfield
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Walter Berns
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Douglas J. Besharov
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Robert H. Bork
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Karlyn Bowman
Resident Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
John E Calfee
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Charles W. Calomiris
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Lynne V. Cheney
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Thomas Donnelly
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Nicholas Eberstadt
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Eric M. Engen
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Mark Falcoff
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
J. Michael Finger
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
David Frum
Resident Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Reuel Marc Gerecht
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Jagadeesh Gokhale
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Robert A. Goldwin
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Michael S. Greve
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Kevin A. Hassett
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Robert Helms
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Frederick M. Hess
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
R. Glenn Hubbard
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Leon R. Kass
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Marvin H. Kosters
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Irving Kristol
Senior Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Michael A. Ledeen
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
James R. Lilley
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Paul A. London
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
John R. Lott Jr.
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
John H. Makin
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Allan H. Meltzer
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Joshua Muravchik
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Charles Murray
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Michael Novak
George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy
Source: www.aei.org
Norman J. Ornstein
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Danielle Pletka
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Sarath Rajapatirana
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Sally Satel MD
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
William Schneider
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
J. Gregory Sidak
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Radek Sikorski
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Christin Hoff Summers
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Arthur Waldron
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Peter J. Wallison
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Ben J. Wattenberg
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Karl Zinsmeister
AEI Scholar/Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Bruce Kovner
AEI Board of Trustees-Chairman
Source: www.aei.org
Tully M. Friedman
Treasurer, Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Gordon Binder
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Joseph A. Cannon
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Harlan Crow
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Morton Fleischer
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Christopher B. Galvin
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Raymond V. Gilmartin
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Harvey Golub
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Robert Greenhill
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Roger Hertog
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Martin M. Koffel
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
John A. Luke JR.
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Ben L. Lytle
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Alex J, Mandl
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Robert A. Prizker
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
J. Joe Ricketts
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Goerge R. Roberts
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
John W. Rowe
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Edward B. Rust Jr.
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
William S. Stavropoulos
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Wilson H. Taylor
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
Marilyn Ware
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
James Q. Wilson
AEI Board of Trustees
Source: www.aei.org
David Gerson
AEI Exec. Vice President
Source: www.aei.org
Montgomery B. Brown
AEI Vice President Publications
Source: www.aei.org
James Q. Wilson
AEI Council of Academic Advisors
Source: www.aei.org
Gertrude Himmelfarb
AEI Council of Academic Advisors
Source: www.aei.org
Samuel P. Huntington
AEI Council of Academic Advisors
Source: www.aei.org
William M. Landes
AEI Council of Academic Advisors
Source: www.aei.org
Sam Peltzman
AEI Council of Academic Advisors
Source: www.aei.org
Nelson Polsby
AEI Council of Academic Advisors
Source: www.aei.org
George L. Priest
AEI Council of Academic Advisors
Source: www.aei.org
Richard J. Zeckhauser
AEI Council of Academic Advisors
Source: www.aei.org
Thomas Gale Moore
writer and contributor
Source: Hoover Institute
Elizabeth Cheney
Visiting Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Gautam Adhikari
Visiting Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Lawrence Lindsey
Visiting Fellow
Source: www.aei.org
Joel Schwartz
Visiting Scholar
Source: www.aei.org
Scott Wallsten
Resident Scholar
Source: www.aei.org
Eliot A. Cohen
Council of Academic Advisors member
Source: www.aei.org
Randall Lutter
former Resident Scholar
Source: Annapolis Center website 3/04
Michael J. Boskin
Adjunct Scholar
Source: Proxy Statement 2004, ExxonMobil Corporation, May 26th, 2004
Iain Murray
Associate Editor, American Enterprise Magazine
Source: CEI Bio (2006)
Thomas Sowell
Former Adjunct Scholar
Source: Hoover Institute website 2007
Kimberly Dennis
director of National Research Initiative, a Searle-funded program at the American Enterprise Institute.
Source: Philanthropy roundtable - Kim Dennis
SOURCES
ExxonMobil 2001 Worldwide Giving Report
Public Information and Policy Research
http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4388
ExxonMobil 2002 Worldwide Giving Report
Public Information and Policy Research
http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4386
ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990
ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990
http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4390
Exxon Education Foundation Dimensions 1998 report
Exxon Dimensions report 1998- Public Information and Policy Research
http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4385
CLEAR d-base
CLEAR d-base
www.aei.org
www.aei.org
www.aei.org
"Corporate-funded Lobbyists Aimed to Sabotage Johannesburg Summit," Africa News, 8/19/2002
Annapolis Center website 3/04
http://www.annapoliscenter.org
ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report
Public Information and Policy Research
http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4389
"Where Are the Weapons of Mass Environmental Destruction?" AEOnline 4/29/04
Commentary by Daniel Kennelly, senior editor of The American Enterprise.
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18004/article_detail.asp
"The Kyoto Treaty Deserved to Die" AEOnline, 9/1/01
Commentary by Christopher DeMuth of AEI
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.15495/article_detail.asp
Proxy Statement 2004, ExxonMobil Corporation, May 26th, 2004
ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report
2004 Worldwide Contributions and Community Investments
Public Information and Policy Research
http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4380
ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report
Public Information and Policy Research
http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4387
CEI Bio (2006)
http://www.cei.org/dyn/view_Expert.cfm?Expert=227
AEI website (2007)
http://www.aei.org
Hoover Institute website 2007
http://www.hoover.org/
AEI Glassman bio May 2007
http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.21,filter.all/scholar.asp
ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report
Public Information and Policy Research
downloaded from Exxon website
http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4381
ExxonMobil 2007 Worldwide Giving Report
http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4586
Hoover Institute
http://www.hoover.org/bios/moore.html
ExxonMobil 2009 Worldwide Contributions and Community Investments
Exxon Mobil Corporation
2009 Worldwide Contributions and Community Investments
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/gcr_contributions_pub-policy09.pdf
ExxonMobil 2010 Worldwide Giving Report
http://exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Files/gcr_contributions_pubpolicy-2010.pdf
Philanthropy roundtable - Kim Dennis
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/who_we_are/board/kimberly_o_dennis
Philamnthropy Roundtable - Karl Zinsmeister
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/who_we_are/staff/karl_zinsmeister
American Enterprise Institute - Koch funded seminar series
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ExxonMobil corporate funding 2011, public policy
http://www.webcitation.org/68w7Tt51X
ExxonMobil corporate funding 2012, public policy
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Files/gcr_contributions_publicpolicy12.pdf
