Philip Lader
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Philip Lader is an American businessman and Democratic politician. He served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001, and currently serves as the chairman of WPP Group PLC, a global media and communications services company.
In 1981 he founded Renaissance Weekends, the non-partisan family retreats that seek to build bridges between innovative leaders from diverse fields. Lader continues to host the event.
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[edit] Education and personal life
Lader graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University, received the M.A. in History from the University of Michigan, completed graduate law studies at Pembroke College, Oxford University, and received the J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was the West Professor of International Studies at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina.
He is married to Linda LeSourd Lader, the president of the Renaissance Institute and a Fellow at Yale University's Center for Faith & Culture. They have two daughters, Mary-Catherine Lader and Whitaker Lader, who are both students at Brown University, and they reside in Charleston, South Carolina.
[edit] Career
Lader worked as the executive vice president of 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 - and later as president of Sea Pines Company, the developer/operator of recreation communities including Hilton Head Island.
Lader was the president of Winthrop University from 1983 to 1985.[1] In 1986, he ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the Governor of South Carolina, losing in the Democratic primary election. He then served as the vice-chancellor of Australia's first private university, Bond University, from 1991 to 1993.[2]
He held several government positions during the presidency of Bill Clinton. Lader served as a Deputy White House Chief of Staff from 1993 to 1994, the administrator of the Small Business Administration from 1994 to 1997, and the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001.
In addition to his role as chairman of the WPP Group, Lader is a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley, and a partner at Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, a South Carolina law firm. He is a member of the Council of Lloyd's of London, and a director of multiple companies: Marathon Oil, AES Corporation, Rusal, the RAND Corporation, WPP, and Songbird Estates PLC (Canary Wharf). He serves on the boards of the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Atlantic Council, the Salzburg Global Seminar, and the Middleton Place Foundation.
He is an Honorary Fellow of London Business School and Oxford University's Pembroke College, a member of the Board of Visitors of Harvard Law School, Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy and Yale Divinity School, and a member of Columbia University's International Advisory Board. He previously was a trustee of the British Museum and St. Paul's Cathedral Foundation, a director of the American Red Cross, president of Business Executives for National Security, and chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts American Trust. He was chairman of the South Carolina Small & Minority Business Council, a trustee of South Carolina State Colleges, and a director of the South Carolina Jobs/Economic Development Authority and the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.
[edit] Honours
Lader has been awarded honorary doctorates by 14 universities. The Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce awarded him the 2001 Benjamin Franklin Medal for his contributions to trans-Atlantic relations, and he received the Rotary International Foundation's 2007 Global Service to Humanity Award.
[edit] References
- ^ Winthrop University (2008). Past Presidents. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
- ^ Bond University (2008). Vice-Chancellor & President. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
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| Preceded by Erskine Bowles |
Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration 1994-1997 |
Succeeded by Aída Álvarez |
| Preceded by William J. Crowe, Jr. |
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1997–2001 |
Succeeded by William S. Farish III |
