Philip Lader
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Philip Lader was the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
(1997–2001) and as of 2010 is chairman of WPP Group
plc, a global media and communications firm.
As a Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley
, he serves on the investment committees of its global real estate and infrastructure funds, as well as the boards of several of its private equity portfolio companies (including Songbird plc-Canary Wharf). He is also a director of Lloyd's of London
(the international insurance market), a member of the corporate boards of Marathon Oil, UC Rusal (the world's largest aluminum producer), and AES (the global power company), and a trustee of RAND Corporation, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, The Atlantic Council, and the Salzburg Global Seminar.
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 four Renaissance Weekends each year around the U.S.
, 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, and was chairman of the Board of Visitors of Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy.
He is married to Linda LeSourd Lader. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, a Fellow at its Center for Faith & Culture, and president of the Renaissance Institute, she assisted President Clinton in his outreach to the nation's communities of faith and, prior to ordination in the Presbyterian Church, is engaged in a Washington, D.C., ministry. She has served on the boards of Habitat for Humanity International, Communities in Schools, International Justice Mission, Harvard University's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Spoleto Festival USA, and other education and religious groups. Ambassador and Mrs. Lader's two daughters, Mary-Catherine Lader and Whitaker Lader, are, respectively, a renewable energy investment analyst with Goldman Sachs and a student at Brown University
. In 2000, a minor diplomatic incident occurred when Tatler
magazine published an article by then 15 year old Mary-Catherine where she argued that British boys were inferior to their American counterparts, which led to a controversy between the ambassador and the magazine. The family's permanent residence is Charleston, South Carolina
.
Lader was the president of South Carolina's Winthrop University
1983–85 and, in 1986, was a candidate in the Democratic primary for the gubernatorial election in South Carolina
. He served as president and vice-chancellor of Australia's first private university, Bond University
, 1991–1993.
Before entering government service, he 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 - and president of Sea Pines Company, a developer/operator of recreation communities including Hilton Head Island
.
Under President Clinton, Lader initially served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management & Budget.
In December 1993, when he became White House Deputy Chief of Staff, The New York Times described him as "a longtime friend" of Clinton's.
Confirmed by the U.S. Senate three times without dissent, Lader served in President Clinton's Cabinet while Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration
.
In addition to his role as chairman of WPP Group and a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley
, Lader is a partner at Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, a South Carolina law firm.
Lader is an Honorary Fellow of London Business School
and Oxford University's Pembroke College
, an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple (British Inns of Court), a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, Harvard Law School's Visiting Committee, Yale Divinity School
's Board of Visitors, and 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, chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts American Trust, and a member of the founding council of the Rothermere American Institute
at Oxford University. In South Carolina, he is a trustee of Middleton Place Foundation and Liberty Fellows and 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.
. During his appearance, hostile members of the audience slow-handclapped Lader and shouted abuse at him while he struggled to regain his composure. The BBC later apologized for the behavior of the audience.
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
The office of United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom was traditionally, and still is very much so today due to the Special Relationship, the most prestigious position in the United States Foreign Service...
(1997–2001) and as of 2010 is chairman of WPP Group
WPP Group
WPP plc is a global media communications services company with its main management office in London, United Kingdom and its executive office in Dublin, Ireland. It is the world's largest advertising group by revenues, and employs over 150,000 people in 2,400 offices in 107 countries...
plc, a global media and communications firm.
As a Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
, he serves on the investment committees of its global real estate and infrastructure funds, as well as the boards of several of its private equity portfolio companies (including Songbird plc-Canary Wharf). He is also a director of Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's, also known as Lloyd's of London, is a British insurance and reinsurance market. It serves as a partially mutualised marketplace where multiple financial backers, underwriters, or members, whether individuals or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk...
(the international insurance market), a member of the corporate boards of Marathon Oil, UC Rusal (the world's largest aluminum producer), and AES (the global power company), and a trustee of RAND Corporation, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, The Atlantic Council, and the Salzburg Global Seminar.
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 four Renaissance Weekends each year around the U.S.
Education and personal life
Lader graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke UniversityDuke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, received the M.A. in History from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, completed graduate law studies at Pembroke College
Pembroke College, Oxford
Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square. As of 2009, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of £44.9 million.-History:...
, Oxford University, and received the J.D. from Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
. He was the West Professor of International Studies at The Citadel
The Citadel (military college)
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, also known simply as The Citadel, is a state-supported, comprehensive college located in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. It is one of the six senior military colleges in the United States...
, the Military College of South Carolina, and was chairman of the Board of Visitors of Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy.
He is married to Linda LeSourd Lader. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, a Fellow at its Center for Faith & Culture, and president of the Renaissance Institute, she assisted President Clinton in his outreach to the nation's communities of faith and, prior to ordination in the Presbyterian Church, is engaged in a Washington, D.C., ministry. She has served on the boards of Habitat for Humanity International, Communities in Schools, International Justice Mission, Harvard University's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Spoleto Festival USA, and other education and religious groups. Ambassador and Mrs. Lader's two daughters, Mary-Catherine Lader and Whitaker Lader, are, respectively, a renewable energy investment analyst with Goldman Sachs and a student at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. In 2000, a minor diplomatic incident occurred when Tatler
Tatler
Tatler has been the name of several British journals and magazines, each of which has viewed itself as the successor of the original literary and society journal founded by Richard Steele in 1709. The current incarnation, founded in 1901, is a glossy magazine published by Condé Nast Publications...
magazine published an article by then 15 year old Mary-Catherine where she argued that British boys were inferior to their American counterparts, which led to a controversy between the ambassador and the magazine. The family's permanent residence is Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...
.
Career
After law school, Lader 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).Lader was the president of South Carolina's Winthrop University
Winthrop University
Winthrop University is a public, four-year liberal arts university in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA. In 2006-07, Winthrop University had an enrollment of 6,292 students. The University has been recognized as South Carolina's top-rated university according to evaluations conducted by the South...
1983–85 and, in 1986, was a candidate in the Democratic primary for the gubernatorial election in South Carolina
South Carolina gubernatorial election, 1986
The 1986 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1986 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., a Republican representative of the 4th congressional district, narrowly defeated Democrat Michael R...
. He served as president and vice-chancellor of Australia's first private university, Bond University
Bond University
Bond University is a private university located in Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is also the first private university established in Australia...
, 1991–1993.
Before entering government service, he 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 - and president of Sea Pines Company, a developer/operator of recreation communities including Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Hilton Head Island or Hilton Head is a resort town in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. It is north of Savannah, Georgia, and south of Charleston. The island gets its name from Captain William Hilton...
.
Under President Clinton, Lader initially served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management & Budget.
In December 1993, when he became White House Deputy Chief of Staff, The New York Times described him as "a longtime friend" of Clinton's.
Confirmed by the U.S. Senate three times without dissent, Lader served in President Clinton's Cabinet while Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration
Small Business Administration
The Small Business Administration is a United States government agency that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses. The mission of the Small Business Administration is "to maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by enabling the establishment and viability of small businesses...
.
In addition to his role as chairman of WPP Group and a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
, Lader is a partner at Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, a South Carolina law firm.
Lader is an Honorary Fellow of London Business School
London Business School
London Business School is an international business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London, located in central London, beside Regent's Park...
and Oxford University's Pembroke College
Pembroke College, Oxford
Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square. As of 2009, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of £44.9 million.-History:...
, an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple (British Inns of Court), a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, Harvard Law School's Visiting Committee, Yale Divinity School
Yale Divinity School
Yale Divinity School is a professional school at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. preparing students for ordained or lay ministry, or for the academy...
's Board of Visitors, and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
'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
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross , also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S...
, president of Business Executives for National Security, chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts American Trust, and a member of the founding council of the Rothermere American Institute
Rothermere American Institute
The Rothermere American Institute is an institution at the University of Oxford dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the USA. It was opened in May 2001 by US President Bill Clinton and hosts regular conferences, lectures and seminars, particularly in the fields of American...
at Oxford University. In South Carolina, he is a trustee of Middleton Place Foundation and Liberty Fellows and 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.
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.Question Time
On September 13, 2001, two days after the September 11 attacks, Lader appeared as a guest on Question TimeQuestion Time (TV series)
Question Time is a topical debate BBC television programme in the United Kingdom, based on Any Questions?. The show typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer questions put to them by the audience...
. During his appearance, hostile members of the audience slow-handclapped Lader and shouted abuse at him while he struggled to regain his composure. The BBC later apologized for the behavior of the audience.