Mary Margaret Frank
Mary Margaret Frank is the Dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching examine the relations between business, government, and civil society in various contexts. She began her career exploring the effect of tax policies on corporate and investor behavior which has evolved into […]
Dikembe Mutombo
NBA Hall of Famer DIKEMBE MUTOMBO was born in the capital city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mutombo is the seventh of ten children born to the late Samuel and Biamba Marie Mutombo. He arrived in the United States in 1987 on an academic scholarship to attend Georgetown University in Washington, […]
Amb. Nancy G. Brinker
Nancy G. Brinker is a three-time Ambassador and New York Times best-selling author who is regarded as the leader of the global breast cancer movement. Her journey began with a promise to her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would do everything possible to end the shame, pain, fear, and hopelessness caused by this […]
Michael Allegretti
Michael Allegretti is Rubicon’s Chief Strategy Officer, leading the company’s rapidly-growing RUBICONSmartCity™ SaaS business, while overseeing all public policy, corporate communications, marketing, and sustainability operations company-wide. Prior to joining Rubicon, Micahel oversaw public policy for Uber Technologies Inc., organized the historic C40 Large Cities Climate Summit, led public policy for the Manhattan Institute for Policy […]
Hon. Jane Harman
Jane Harman resigned from Congress February 28, 2011 to join the Woodrow Wilson Center as its first female Director, President, and CEO. Representing the aerospace center of California during nine terms in Congress, she served on all the major security committees: six years on Armed Services, eight years on Intelligence, and eight on Homeland Security. […]
H.E. Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Alvaro Uribe holds a degree in law from the Universidad de Antioquia and a post-graduate degree in Management and Administration from Harvard University. From 1998 to 1999 after being awarded the Simon Bolivar fellowship by the British Council in Bogotá, he worked as an associate professor at Oxford University. He was the mayor of Medellín […]
Hon. Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd is Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, taking up his posting in Washington in March 2023. Kevin served as Australia’s twenty-sixth Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. He was Member for Griffith in the Australian Parliament […]
Amb. John D. Negroponte
John D. Negroponte, Vice Chairman, joined McLarty Associates in 2009, following a distinguished career in diplomacy and national security. Ambassador Negroponte held government positions abroad and in Washington between 1960 and 1997 and again from 2001 to 2008. He has been Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq. In Washington he […]
Anita B. McBride
Anita B. McBride is executive-in-residence at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. She directs programming and national conferences on the legacies of America’s first ladies (the First Ladies Initiative) and their historical influence on politics, policy, and global diplomacy. McBride’s White House service spans […]
H.E. Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Aleksander Kwaśniewski is the former President of the Republic of Poland (1995 – 2005). He was born on the 15th November 1954, in Białogard, Poland. He participated in the famous “Round-Table” negotiations in Poland that finally brought the peaceful transformation of Poland and the whole Central and Eastern Europe from communism to democracy. A co-founding […]
John Koudounis
Serving as a driving force behind improving strategic initiatives, Calamos Investments President and Chief Executive Officer John Koudounis is critical in delivering innovative solutions to business development and expanding product breadth for the firm’s global base of clients. Under Mr. Koudounis’ leadership, the firm’s AUM has grown to more than $40 billion and has also […]