Dame Jillian Sackler is Chairman Emerita and Trustee of the Foreign Policy Association. She is a Trustee of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and the Friends of the Mexican Development Foundation. She is the Honorary Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University in Beijing, China.

Dame Sackler has served as a Trustee of Tufts University, American Film Institute, Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, and Royal Academy of Arts. She is an alumni member of the Rockefeller University Council, the Trustee Council of the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian National Board. She served as International Chairman for the Edinburgh Festival Committee and on the American Committee of UNICEF.

Dame Sackler received the China Institute Blue Cloud Award 2018; Foreign Policy Association Medal 2014; Royal Academy of Arts Benjamin West Award (Anglo-American Friendship) 2009; The National Academy of Sciences Einstein Award 2005; Smithsonian Institution Benefactor of the Year Award 1993; Hahnemann University President’s Award for Contributions to the Arts 1985. In 1994, she became Dame of Malta with Crown, and in 2005, was awarded a D.B.E. (Dame of the British Empire).