Philip Lader
Former US Ambassador, Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley
Philip Lader—a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley—served as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, chairman of WPP plc (including J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam and other advertising & media companies; with 205,000 associates in 114 countries), and a member of President Clinton’s Cabinet.
Confirmed three times by unanimous consent of the US Senate, he also was White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of the US Office of Management & Budget, and Administrator of the US Small Business Administration. In commercial roles, he was president of the privately-held company managing America’s then-largest non-governmental landholdings, as well as president of Sea Pines Company (publicly-held developer/operator of large-scale resorts). Formerly a partner in a national law firm, he is lead director of AMC Entertainment and has been a member of the boards of Lloyds of London, Marathon Oil, AES, Rusal, Songbird (London’s Canary Wharf), and several banks and privately-held technology companies.
In education and civic life, he was vice chairman (now trustee emeritus) of RAND Corporation, and president of universities in South Carolina and Australia, as well as Business Executives for National Security. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has been a trustee of the American Red Cross, British Museum, Smithsonian Museum of American History, Atlantic Council, Salzburg Global Seminar, Spain’s Bankinter Foundation, and St. Paul’s Cathedral Foundation. Educated at Duke University, The University of Michigan, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School, Lader served as a law clerk with the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in the US Army (JAG) Reserves, as professor of international studies at The Citadel (The Military College of South Carolina), and on Advisory Boards of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Duke Universities.
Ambassador Lader co-founded Renaissance Weekends with his wife in 1981, and continues to host the non-partisan retreats that seek to build bridges between innovative leaders from diverse fields. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by 14 universities, and is an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University’s Pembroke College, London Business School, and Middle Temple (English Inns of Court). He was the recipient of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures & Commerce’s 2001 Benjamin Franklin Medal for his contributions to trans-Atlantic relations and Rotary International’s 2007 Global Service Award.
Confirmed three times by unanimous consent of the US Senate, he also was White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of the US Office of Management & Budget, and Administrator of the US Small Business Administration. In commercial roles, he was president of the privately-held company managing America’s then-largest non-governmental landholdings, as well as president of Sea Pines Company (publicly-held developer/operator of large-scale resorts). Formerly a partner in a national law firm, he is lead director of AMC Entertainment and has been a member of the boards of Lloyds of London, Marathon Oil, AES, Rusal, Songbird (London’s Canary Wharf), and several banks and privately-held technology companies.
In education and civic life, he was vice chairman (now trustee emeritus) of RAND Corporation, and president of universities in South Carolina and Australia, as well as Business Executives for National Security. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has been a trustee of the American Red Cross, British Museum, Smithsonian Museum of American History, Atlantic Council, Salzburg Global Seminar, Spain’s Bankinter Foundation, and St. Paul’s Cathedral Foundation. Educated at Duke University, The University of Michigan, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School, Lader served as a law clerk with the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in the US Army (JAG) Reserves, as professor of international studies at The Citadel (The Military College of South Carolina), and on Advisory Boards of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Duke Universities.
Ambassador Lader co-founded Renaissance Weekends with his wife in 1981, and continues to host the non-partisan retreats that seek to build bridges between innovative leaders from diverse fields. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by 14 universities, and is an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University’s Pembroke College, London Business School, and Middle Temple (English Inns of Court). He was the recipient of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures & Commerce’s 2001 Benjamin Franklin Medal for his contributions to trans-Atlantic relations and Rotary International’s 2007 Global Service Award.
