Philip Lader

Philip Lader
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 Stafffor 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 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’sand former chairman ofWPP plc,the global advertising/communications services firm (including Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson, Young & Rubicam, Grey, Hill & Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller, Kantar, and Group M, with 205,000 people in 112 countries).

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 Mullinslaw firm.

In government, he also served as 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 serves, or has served, on the boards ofRAND Corporation(formerly vice chairman),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 CathedralFoundation,Atlantic Council,and Bankinter Foundation for Innovation.

He is a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations,an Honorary Fellow ofLondon Business SchoolandOxford University's Pembroke College, and an Honorary Bencher of theMiddle Temple(British Inns of Court).

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.

Early life and education

Lader graduatedPhi Beta Kappawith aBachelor of Artsin political science fromDuke Universityin 1966, received theMaster of Artsin History from theUniversity of Michiganin 1967, completed graduate studies in law and English constitutional history atOxford Universityfrom 1967 to 1968, and received his JD as a Leopold Schepp Scholar fromHarvard Law Schoolin 1972.

Career

During his studies atHarvard Law School,Lader was an Assistant Professor of Political Science atNewton College of the Sacred Heart(subsequently merged withBoston College) and a teaching assistant to Harvard Law Professor Paul Freund and Harvard Political Philosophy Professor Louis Hartz. 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.He served in the U.S. Army (JAG) Reserves from 1969 to 1975.

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 Universityin 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. Danieland 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 Carolinafrom 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 Policyand theRoyal Academy of ArtsAmerican 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 AffairsAdvisory Board, and the founding Council of theRothermere American InstituteatOxford University.In South Carolina, he was a trustee ofMiddleton PlaceFoundation (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.

Honors

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.

Personal life

He is married to Linda LeSourd Lader, who is associate pastor of Gardens Presbyterian Church in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. A graduate of Yale Divinity School and fifth-generation graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, she was associate pastor of theNew York Avenue Presbyterian Churchin Washington, D.C. Her editing work continued the tradition of her parents, Leonard LeSourd, longtime editor ofGuideposts Magazineand Catherine Marshall, author ofA Man Called Peter,Christy, and other best-selling books. She received the International Women’s Foundation Leadership Award in 2000 and the 2012 Humanitarian Award fromEmma Willard School,her alma mater.

Ambassador and Mrs. Lader have two daughters. Mary-Catherine Lader, who holds JD/MBA degrees from Harvard University, is chief operating officer of the decentralized finance platform Uniswap and previously was a managing director at BlackRock (and chief operating officer of the firm's Digital Wealth business and head of its climate tech business, Aladdin Sustainability). Whitaker Lader, who holds the MBA from Stanford University and leads actorNicholas Hoult's film/TV production company, previously worked with Ron Howard's and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment and Sundance Institute; and her credits include "The World to Come" (starring Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterstone) and "Light of My Life" (Casey Affleck and Elisabeth Moss). Both daughters are also graduates of Brown University.

External links

• Council of American Ambassadors biography
• Nelson Mullins law firm biography
• Renaissance Weekend - Founders
• AppearancesonC-SPAN