Hudson Institute

The Hudson Institute was founded in 1961. It is a right wing think tank "dedicated to thinking about the future from a contrarian point of view", according to its literature.

The Hudson Institute has been funded by, amongst others: AgrEvo, Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto, Novartis Crop Protection, Zeneca, DuPont, Dow Elanco, ConAgra, Cargill, Procter & Gamble.

The Hudson Institute has published books and reports on everything from military strategy and national security, to agriculture and the environment, to trade, labor, and economic development, to health care, welfare, and education, but the primary focus is on 'free trade' and competitive enterprise and a strong military. (Founder Herman Kahn was a physicist and military strategist who suggested that nuclear war was winnable.)

"Hudson Scholars" listed as specializing in "biotechnology" on the Hudson Institute website in 2002 include Michael Fumento, a Senior Fellow, Dennis Avery, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute; and Alex Avery, director of research and education at the Center for Global Food Issues. All have published numerous articles.

Funding

Between 1987 and 2006, the Institute received 273 grants totaling $17,722,643 (unadjusted for inflation) from a range of foundations including:

• Castle Rock Foundation
• Earhart Foundation
• F.M. Kirby Foundation
• John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
• JM Foundation
• Koch Family Foundations (David H. Koch Foundation)
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
• Scaife Foundation (Scaife Family, Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)
• Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation
• Smith Richardson Foundation
• Walton Family Foundation
• William H. Donner Foundation

According to its 2001 Annual Report, Hudson received some $7,108,000 in income. The following are members of the Hudson Trustees’ Circle which have donated more than $25,000 – it is not the full list:

• AT&T Foundation
• W.H. Brady Foundation
• Capital Group Companies, Inc.
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Enron Corporation
• Estee Lauder Philanthropic Foundation
• FMC Corporation
• General Atomics
• The German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Indiana Chamber of Commerce
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Lilly Endowment, Inc.
• Microsoft Corporation
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Pfizer, Inc.
• Starr Foundation
• Walton Family Foundation, Inc.

HUDSON CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE — ($10,000.00+)

• American Farm Bureau Federation
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
• David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
• ExxonMobil Foundation
• General Motors Corporation
• IMC Global, Inc.
• Inland Foundation, Inc.
• Arthur Jordan Foundation
• David H. Koch
• Sunrise Assisted Living
• Union Pacific Corporation
• Westfield Corporation, Inc.

Funders listed in the 2002 Hudson Institute annual report include:

• Ag Processing Inc
• American Cyanamid
• Archer Daniels Midland
• Cargill
• Ciba-Geigy
• ConAgra Foods
• DowElanco
• DuPont
• J Heinz
• McDonalds
• Monsanto
• National Agricultural Chemical Association
• Novartis
• Proctor & Gamble
• Sunkist Growers
• United Agri Products

Links to the Bush Administration

• Paula Dobriansky - the former Under-secretary of State for Global Affairs –was an adjunct fellow
• Mitchell E. Daniels Jr - former Director of the Office of Management and Budget - was in 1987 appointed chief executive officer of the Hudson Institute . He is a former president of Eli Lilly. He was elected 49th Governor of the State of Indiana in 2004.
• Wade Horn - the former Assistant Secretary for Children and Families was an adjunct fellow
• John Weicher - the former Assistant Secretary Commissioner, Federal Housing Authority in the Department of Housing and Urban Development is Director of Hudson Institute's Center for Housing and Financial Markets.
• Elliott Abrams - the Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations at the National Security Council - was a Senior Fellow from 1989 to 1996.
• Bruno V. Manno - the former US Assistant Secretary of Education Policy and Planning and Chair of the Commission on Presidential Scholars, was a senior fellow.

Staff

• Herbert I. London – President. In 1990, he was the Conservative Party candidate for Governor of New York, In 1994, he was Republican Party candidate for New York State Comptroller.
• Kenneth R. Weinstein - Vice President and Chief Operating Officer - was managing director of the Shalem Center, with offices in Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.
• Alan W. Dowd - Director, Indianapolis Office

Board of Trustees

• Jeffrey T. Bergner – President of the PR firm Bergner, Bockorny, Castagnetti, Hawkins & Brain, Inc. Senate lobbying records for 2003 show that their clients include Monsanto for which the firm was paid $100,000 in the first half of 2003. Issues the company worked on for Monsanto include “biotechnology acceptance” and the controversial growth hormone BST. Other clients listed in the Senate lobbying records for 2003 included Biogen, Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Glaxo Smith Kline, Petroleum Marketers Assn of America, Phrma and NewsCorp.
• Conrad Black - ex-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hollinger International Inc, ex-owner of the Daily Telegraph
• Linden S. Blue - vice chairman of General Atomics, a diversified international high technology company with world leadership positions in fusion, fission, and training research and isotope nuclear reactors.
• Rudy Boschwitz - Ex republican Senator and President Bush Senior emissary to Ethiopia in the spring of 1991.
• Charles H. Brunie – Chairman Emeritus of Oppenheimer Capital
• Joseph Epstein - lecturer at Northwestern University
• Joseph M. Giglio - Chairman of President Reagan’s National Council on Public Works Improvement

• Roy Innis - Roy Innis is national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) On the board of the National Rifle Association. In January 2004 CORE held a “Teach-In, Demand End to "Eco-Imperialism” along with Roger Bate under the guise of Africa Fighting Malaria (see AEI and IPN); Cyril Boynes, and Niger Innis from CORE, USA; Paul Driessen, from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation / CFACT/ CDFE / and ex-Greenpeace founder and industry hack Patrick Moore, as well as CS Prakash the biotech proponent (see CEI), amongst others. Niger Innes said: “We intend to stop this callous eco-manslaughter. The green movement imposes the views of mostly wealthy, comfortable Americans and Europeans on mostly poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans. It violates their most basic human rights. CORE will lay down the gauntlet. Eco-imperialism may not be a household word yet, but it will be after this conference, the first one to address these issues” [8].

The next month in early February, the CDFE and CORE set up the Economic Human Rights Project, with Paul Driessen as its Director(See more on CORE with CDFE)[9]

• Paul J. Klaassen - Founder - Chairman and CEO of Sunrise Assisted Living.
• Marie-Josee Kravis – Senior Fellow at Hudson. On the Board of Ford.
• Andre B. Lacy - chairman and CEO of LDI, Ltd.,
• L. Ben Lytle - health care specialist
• Robert H. McKinney - is chairman of First Indiana Corporation,
• John M. Mutz - is the former president of PSI Energy, a former Republican lieutenant governor of Indiana,
• Neil H. Offen - is president and chief executive officer of Direct Selling Association (DSA)
• Richard N. Perle – AEI and PNAC (see AEI)
• Steuart L. Pittman - lawyer
• George A. Schaefer, Jr. - Banker
• Wallace O. Sellers - Chairman of Natural Gas Services, Inc.
• Max Singer – Senior Hudson Fellow
• Walter P. Stern - He is Chairman and a Director of Capital International – Chairman of Hudson
• Stephen A. Stitle - Banker
• Allan R. Tessler - Chairman and CEO of JNet Enterprises, Inc
• Jeffrey H. Thomasson - he is CEO & Managing Director of Oxford Financial Group, Ltd
• Ambassador Curtin Winsor Jr - ex-Republican amdassador
• John C. Wohlstetter - A senior fellow for technology and society with Discovery Institute

Trustees emeriti also include:

• Thomas J. Donohue - president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• James H. Dowling – from PR firm Burson-Marsteller
• Alan Hubbard - From 1990 to 1992, he served as deputy chief of staff to the Vice President of the United States and executive director of the President’s Council on Competitiveness
• Dan Quayle (honorary)– Republican Vice President under Bush Senior.

Research /Adjunct Fellows / Scholars of Interest

• Dennis Avery - Center for Global Food Issues Senior Fellow – works on agriculture and biotechnology. Avery is also on the Advisory board of ACSH (see below)[10]
• Alex Avery – Director of research and education with the Center for Global Food Issues at Hudson (see below).
• Michael Fumento – Senior Fellow – Has done the rounds of the right. Ex- American Enterprise Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Consumer Alert, and Reason magazine[11]. On the Science Advisory Board of the Wise Use Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow along with known climate sceptics and industry apologists Sallie Baliunas C. Balling, Bruce Ames, Roger Bate, Hugh Ellsaesser, Michael Fumento, Sherwood B. Idso, Patrick J. Michaels, A. Alan Moghissi, Frederic Seitz, Gerd-Rainer Weber, and Elizabeth Whelan.[12].

Projects

The institute also runs a number of projects with specific focuses:

• Center for American Common Culture- John Fonte, Director
• Center for Global Food Issues - Dennis Avery Director
• Center for Latin American Studies - Jaime Daremblum Director
• Center for Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World - Hillel Fradkin Director
• Center for Employment Policy - Diana Furchtgott-Roth Director;
• Economic Policy Studies (formerly the Regulatory Studies Center) Irwin Stelzer Director;
• Islam and Democracy Project - Husain Haqqani Co-Chair;
• Project on Campaign and Election Laws - Amy Kaufman;
• Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal - William A. Schambra, Director;
• Center for Future Security Strategies - S. Enders Wimbush, Director;
• Center for Middle East Policy - Meyrav Wurmser Director;
• Eye on the UN

Principals and Board members

• Rudy Boschwitz – former US Senator
• Roy Innis – national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
• Max Singer – co-Founder and former President; also member of Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
• Nina Rosenwald – Board member of both the Hudson Institute and Freedom House

Affiliations

• Jerusalem Center on Public Affairs(JCPA)
• NGO Monitor
• Freedom House

External Resources

• Yacoub Kahlen, Hudson Institute and 'Eye on the UN' join the ranks of gutter journalists, electronicIntifada, 22 June 2006.

Contact

• Address: Herman Kahn Center, 5395 Emerson Way, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Web address: http://www.hudson.org

References

• [1] http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=6182
• [2] http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?160
• [3] 2001 Hudson Institute Annual Report
• [4] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Hudson_Institute
• [5] http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2939
• [6] http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/opr_gifviewer.exe?/2003/01/000/281/000281488%7C19
• [7] http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/opr_viewer.exe?200346006REG~0
• [8] CORE (2004) CORE to Hold Teach-In, Demand End to "Eco-Imperialism", Press Release, 15 January.
• [9] http://www.cdfe.org/EHRP.htm
• [10] http://www.acsh.org/about/advisors.html
• [11] http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=FumeMich
• [12] http://www.cfact.org/what_is_cfact.htm
• [13] D. Helvarg (1994) The War Against the Greens, Sierra Club Books, p280.
• [14] http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html
• [15] http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/usual.html
• [16] http://www.Tech Central Station.com/biofumentomichael.html