Sir Evelyn de Rothschild's Kissinger Fellowship Endowment Continues to Shape Global Leadership The McCain Institute Kissinger Fellowship exists to support a senior leader in foreign policy and national security while honoring the career of the former U.S. Secretary of State. Article continues below advertisementThat benefactor, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, was a British banker whose family foundation supported causes on both sides of the Atlantic. Foundation records show a 2015 grant of £65,660 dedicated to the establishment of an endowment for the new Kissinger Fellowship at the McCain Institute in Arizona. The institute publicly lists the ERANDA Rothschild Foundation among its supporters under Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Kissinger introduced Sir Evelyn to Lynn Forester at the 1998 Bilderberg conference in Scotland, and the couple married in 2000.