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Philip Lader | |
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| United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
| In office September 22, 1997 – February 28, 2001 | |
| President | Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | William J. Crowe |
| Succeeded by | William Stamps Farish III |
| 19th Administrator of the Small Business Administration | |
| In office October 8, 1994 – February 18, 1997 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Erskine Bowles |
| Succeeded by | Aída Álvarez |
| White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations | |
| In office January 20, 1993 – October 3, 1994 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Robert Zoellick |
| Succeeded by | Erskine Bowles |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 17, 1946 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Linda LeSourd |
| Children | 2 daughters |
| Education | Duke University (BA) University of Michigan (MA) Pembroke College, Oxford Harvard University (JD) |
Philip Lader (born March 17, 1946), is a former US Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s and former chairman of WPP plc, the global advertising and communications services firm.
As a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley, he serves on several of its investment committees and boards of its private equity portfolio companies in addition to investment banking responsibilities. He is also a retired partner in the Nelson Mullins law firm[citation needed].
In government, he was a member of President Clinton’s Cabinet as administrator of the US Small Business Administration, assistant to the president, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and deputy director of the US Office of Management and Budget.
Ambassador Lader has been a member of the boards of RAND Corporation (formerly vice chairman), Lloyd's of London, Marathon Oil, AMC Entertainment, AES Corporation, UC Rusal, Songbird (Canary Wharf), Duck Creek Technologies, and Minerva Corporations, the British Museum, American Red Cross, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, St. Paul's Cathedral Foundation, Atlantic Council, and Bankinter Foundation for Innovation[citation needed].
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Honorary Fellow of London Business School and Oxford University's Pembroke College, and an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple (British Inns of Court)[citation needed].
In 1981, he and his wife, Linda LeSourd Lader, founded Renaissance Weekends, the non-partisan 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.