predecessor successor children birth_place president party office birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name alma_mater
william crowe erskine bowles william farish aída Álvarez 2 daughters new york city , new york , u.s. bill clinton george w. bush bill clinton democratic united of the small business administration states ambassador to the united kingdom 19th administrator 17 march 1946 september 22 , 1997 october 8 , 1994 linda lesourd philip lader
 february 28 , 2001 february 18 , 1997 philip lader duke college , oxford harvard university university university of michigan , ann arbor pembroke
philip lader

philip lader -lrb- born 17 march 1946 -rrb- was the united states ambassador to the court of st. james 's -lrb- 1997 -- 2001 -rrb- and since 2001 has been chairman of wpp plc , the global media and communications firm that includes ogilvy & mather , j. walter thompson , young & rubicam , grey , hill & knowlton , burson-marsteller , kantar & group m -lrb- with 179,000 people in 3,200 offices across 112 countries -rrb- as a senior adviser to morgan stanley , he has served on several of its investment committees and boards of its private equity portfolio -lrb- including songbird plc-canary wharf -rrb- , in addition to investment banking responsibilities .
he is also a senior adviser to palantir technologies , the silicon valley `` big data '' software firm and a partner in the nelson , mullins , riley & scarborough law firm with 600 lawyers across the u.s. east coast .
he is a director of marathon oil , uc rusal -lrb- the world 's largest aluminum producer -rrb- , and aes -lrb- the global power company -rrb- , a trustee -lrb- formerly vice chairman -rrb- of rand corporation , the smithsonian museum of american history , and the atlantic council , a member of the council on foreign relations and the board of brown university 's watson institute of international studies .
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 five renaissance weekends each year around the u.s.
