Philip Lader
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His Excellency Philip Lader |
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| United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office September 22, 1997 – February 28, 2001 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | William Crowe |
| Succeeded by | William S. Farish |
| 19th Administrator of the Small Business Administration | |
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In office October 8, 1994 – February 18, 1997 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Erskine Bowles |
| Succeeded by | Aída Álvarez |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 17, 1946 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Linda LeSourd |
| Children | 2 daughters |
| Alma mater |
Duke University University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Pembroke College, Oxford Harvard University |
Philip Lader (born 17 March 1946) was the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (1997–2001) and since 2001 has been chairman of WPP plc, the global media and communications firm that includes Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson, Young & Rubicam, Grey, Hill & Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller, Kantar & Group M (with 179,000 people in 3,200 offices across 112 countries)
As a Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley, he has served on several of its investment committees and boards of its private equity portfolio (including Songbird plc-Canary Wharf), in addition to investment banking responsibilities. He is also a Senior Adviser to Palantir Technologies, the Silicon Valley “big data” software firm and a partner in the Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough law firm with 600 lawyers across the U.S. East Coast.
He is a director of Marathon Oil, UC Rusal (the world’s largest aluminum producer), and AES (the global power company), a trustee (formerly Vice Chairman) of RAND Corporation, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, and the Atlantic Council, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the board of Brown University’s Watson Institute of International Studies.
In 1981, he and his wife, Linda LeSourd Lader, founded Renaissance Weekends, the non-partisan family 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 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. as a Leopold Schepp Scholar from Harvard Law School.
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