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Philip Lader | |
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| United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
| In office September 22, 1997 – February 28, 2001 | |
| President | Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | William J. Crowe |
| Succeeded by | William Stamps Farish III |
| 19thAdministrator of the Small Business Administration | |
| In office October 8, 1994 – February 18, 1997 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Erskine Bowles |
| Succeeded by | Aída Álvarez |
| White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations | |
| In office January 20, 1993 – October 3, 1994 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Robert Zoellick |
| Succeeded by | Erskine Bowles |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1946-03-17)March 17, 1946 (age 79) New York City,New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Linda LeSourd |
| Children | 2 daughters |
| Education | Duke University (BA) University of Michigan (MA) Pembroke College, Oxford Harvard University (JD) |
Philip Lader (born March 17, 1946), is a former US Ambassador to theCourt of St. James’s and former chairman ofWPP plc, the global advertising and communications services firm.
As a senior adviser toMorgan Stanley, he serves on several of its investment committees and boards of its private equity portfolio companies in addition to investment banking responsibilities. He is also a retired partner in theNelson Mullins law firm.[1]
In government, he was a member of President Clinton’s Cabinet as administrator of the USSmall Business Administration, assistant to the president, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and deputy director of the US Office of Management and Budget.
Ambassador Lader has been a member of the boards ofRAND Corporation (formerly vice chairman),[2]Lloyd's of London,Marathon Oil,AMC Entertainment,AES Corporation,UC Rusal, Songbird (Canary Wharf), Duck Creek Technologies, and Minerva Corporations, theBritish Museum,American Red Cross, theSmithsonian Museum of American History,St. Paul's Cathedral Foundation,Atlantic Council, and Bankinter Foundation for Innovation.[3]
He is a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations,[4] an Honorary Fellow ofLondon Business School andOxford University's Pembroke College,[5] and an Honorary Bencher of theMiddle Temple (British Inns of Court).[6]
In 1981, he and his wife, Linda LeSourd Lader, foundedRenaissance Weekends, the non-partisan retreats that seek to build bridges between innovative leaders from diverse fields. They continue to host five Renaissance Weekends each year around the U.S.
Lader graduatedPhi Beta Kappa with aBachelor of Arts in political science fromDuke University in 1966, received theMaster of Arts in History from theUniversity of Michigan in 1967, completed graduate studies in law and English constitutional history atOxford University from 1967 to 1968, and received his JD as a Leopold Schepp Scholar fromHarvard Law School in 1972.[7]
During his studies atHarvard Law School, Lader was an Assistant Professor of Political Science atNewton College of the Sacred Heart[citation needed]. After graduation, he was a law clerk to the late Judge Paul Roney, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit (formerly Fifth Circuit) and was associated with the New York law firm ofSullivan & Cromwell[citation needed]. He served in the U.S. Army (JAG) Reserves from 1969 to 1975[citation needed].
Lader was president ofSea Pines Company, a developer/operator of large-scale recreation communities includingHilton Head Island,Amelia Island, andKiawah Island. Upon sale of that company in 1983, he was president ofWinthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, which was awarded the National Gold Medal for "general improvement in programs" by the Council for Advancement & Support of Education during his tenure, and served until becoming a candidate in the1986 South Carolina gubernatorial election, finishing second to then-Lieutenant GovernorMichael R. Daniel and foregoing the run-off in support of Daniel, who narrowly lost to RepublicanCarroll A. Campbell Jr. in the general election.
From 1986 to 1989, Lader was executive vice president of Sir James Goldsmith's U.S. holdings – which included America's then-largest private landholdings, sixth-largest forest products company, largest computer supplies supplier, and oil and gas interests. After the assets' restructuring and sale, he was president and Vice-Chancellor ofBond University, Australia's first private university.
Under PresidentBill Clinton, described by The New York Times as "a longtime friend," Lader was confirmed unanimously three times by the U.S. Senate for his State Department, SBA and OMB roles. Returning to the private sector in 2001, Lader joined Morgan Stanley and WPP. In addition to board services, he also was the John West Professor of International Studies atThe Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina from 2001 to 2006.
He has served as president of Business Executives for National Security, chairman of the Board of Visitors ofDuke University’sSanford Institute of Public Policy and theRoyal Academy of Arts American Trust, a member ofHarvard Law School's Visiting Committee,Columbia University's International Advisory Board,Yale Divinity School's advisory board, andBrown University'sWatson Institute for International and Public Affairs Advisory Board, and the founding Council of theRothermere American Institute atOxford University. In South Carolina, he was a trustee ofMiddleton Place Foundation (America's oldest landscaped gardens) and Liberty Fellows and was chairman of the South Carolina Small & Minority Business Council, a trustee ofSouth Carolina State Colleges, and a director of the South Carolina Jobs-Economic Development Authority, First Carolina Bank, and the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.
Lader has been awarded honorary doctorates by 14 universities. For his contributions to trans-Atlantic relations, the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce awarded him the 2001Benjamin Franklin Medal, and he received the Rotary International Foundation's 2007 Global Service to Humanity Award and British-American Business' 2016 Founders Award.
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