Philip Lader (AB ’66), Chairman, WPP Group plc - London & New York

Ambassador Lader, the former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, is chairman of WPP Group, the worldwide communications/media company which includes J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, and Young & Rubicam, with 97,000 people in 106 countries. He is also a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley; a member of the boards of Lloyd's of London, Marathon Oil, AES, and Rusal Corporations; a trustee of RAND Corporation, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History; and a partner in the law firm of Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough. He formerly was a member of President Clinton's Cabinet, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Office of Management & Budget. Co-founder with his wife, Linda, of Renaissance Weekends, he previously was executive vice president of Sir James Goldsmith’s U.S. holdings and president of universities in South Carolina and Australia. He is a founding member of the Sanford Institute Board of Visitors and served as its chairman from 1996-1997.