Philip Lader (born 1946) 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.
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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, 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.[1] The family's permanent residence is Charleston, South Carolina.
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 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.[2]
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.[3]
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.
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.
On September 13, 2001, two days after the September 11 attacks, Lader appeared as a guest on Question Time. 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.[4][5][6]
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| Preceded by Erskine Bowles |
Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration 1994-1997 |
Succeeded by Aída Álvarez |
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| Preceded by William J. Crowe, Jr. |
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1997–2001 |
Succeeded by William S. Farish III |
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