No Palestinians have been announced at this top level, but the White House said additional members will be announced over the coming weeks.

Who is on the founding Executive Board?

Tony Blair

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose legacy was heavily tarnished by the 2003 war in Iraq, has long been a contentious figure in the Middle East.

The 72-year-old political veteran was named by US President Donald Trump as a member of a fledgling "Board of Peace" to help oversee Gaza.

He said Saturday he was "honoured" to have been tapped by Trump to join the board, adding he looked forward to working with "other colleagues in line with the president's vision to promote peace and prosperity".

After leaving office as PM in 2007, he served as Middle East envoy for the Quartet of international powers - the United Nations, European Union, US, and Russia - from 2007 to 2015.

Sir Tony is the only founding member of the executive board who is not a US citizen.

Marco Rubio

Rubio has previously, before Trump's return to office, spoken out against a ceasefire in Gaza. When asked by activists on Capitol Hill if he would support ending the fighting there, he firmly said no.

Rubio was a former Florida Senator and has years of experience serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

"On the contrary … I want them to destroy every element of Hamas they can get their hands on," Rubio said last year. "These people are vicious animals who committed horrifying crimes."

But he has since praised the first phase of Gaza’s ceasefire deal signed in October 2025, as the "best" and "only" plan.

Steve Witkoff

Is an American real estate developer, investor, and founder of the Witkoff Group. He had a career as a real estate attorney before shifting to property development in New York and Miami. He is also a golf partner of Trump.

Earlier this month, Witkoff announced the start of phase two of Trump's plan to end the Israeli war on Gaza. Expecting Hamas to "comply fully with its obligations" under the deal, or face "serious consequences".

Witkoff has been a central figure in US-led efforts to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. He met with the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Jared Kushner

The US president's son-in-law. Alongside Witkoff, Kushner has often worked as a US mediator for the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Israeli war on Gaza.

For much of his career, Kushner worked as a real estate investor in New York City, especially through the family business, Kushner Companies. He took over the company after his father, Charles Kushner, was convicted of 18 criminal charges, including illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering in 2005, although Charles was pardoned by Trump in 2020.

Marc Rowan

Billionaire Marc Rowan is the CEO of Apollo Global Management, a large private equity firm headquartered in New York.

Rowan was seen as a contender to become the US Treasury Secretary for Trump's second term.

Ajay Banga

Is an Indian American business executive. He is the president of the World Bank Group. He was the executive chairman of Mastercard. Former US President Joe Biden nominated him to lead the World Bank in 2023.

Born in India in 1959, Banga became a US citizen in 2007.

Robert Gabriel

Robert Gabriel, a US national security adviser, will be the final member of the "founding executive board".

Gabriel has worked with Trump since his 2016 presidential campaign, shortly after which, according to PBS, he became a special assistant to Stephen Miller, another of Trump's key current advisers.

Nickolay Mladenov

Is a former Bulgarian Minister of Defence and Foreign Affairs and a former UN envoy for the Middle East.

He will oversee a separate 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), led by Ali Shaath, a former deputy minister in the Palestinian Authority (PA), charged with managing the day-to-day governance of post-war Gaza.

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