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, […]
Andrew N. Liveris AO
Andrew N. Liveris AO is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company and the former Executive Chairman of DowDuPont. With a combined 42 years of experience at Dow, his career spanned roles in manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing, and business and general management before becoming CEO and Chairman. In April 2022, […]
The Hon. Douglas A. Smith
The Honourable Douglas A. Smith has spent the last 30 years serving at the highest levels of government in national security. In the private sector, he is a serial entrepreneur having helped start numerous companies. Before joining Orchard, Douglas was the Managing Director for Kent Strategies, a strategic consulting firm, where he led the firm’s engagements […]
The Hon. Melanne Verveer
Verveer is the Executive Director of the Georgetown University Institute for Women, Peace and Security. Earlier she served as the first US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, having been appointed by President Obama. Prior to serving in the State Department, she co-founded and led Vital Voices, a global NGO investing in emerging women leaders. During […]
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. […]
Laura Bush
One of the most beloved and admired American First Ladies, for decades Laura Bush has championed key issues in the fields of education, health care, and human rights. She has traveled to more than seventy-six countries, including two historic solo trips to Afghanistan, and has launched groundbreaking education and healthcare programs in the United States […]
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 […]