Philip Lader (born March 17, 1946), the former Ambassador to the Court of St.
James's, was chairman of WPP plc (including Ogilvy & Mather, J.
Walter Thompson, Young & Rubicam, Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton and 110 other companies, with 205,000 employees in 112 countries).
As a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley, he has served on several of its investment committees and boards of its private equity portfolio companies (including Songbird plc/Canary Wharf), in addition to investment banking responsibilities.
He is also an adviser to Palantir Technologies, the Silicon Valley "big data" firm, and Partner Emeritus in the Nelson Mullins law firm.
Ambassador Lader serves, or has served, on the boards of RAND Corporation (formerly Vice Chairman), AMC Entertainment, Lloyds of London, Marathon Oil, AES Corporation (the global power company), UC Rusal, Duck Creek Technologies, and Minerva Corporations, the British Museum, American Red Cross, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, St.
Paul's Cathedral Foundation and Bankinter Foundation for Innovation.
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).
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.