Subdivision
| • | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | [X] |
| | 1 | Name: | Mr. Warren Edward Buffett | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
Warren E. Buffett is considered one of the leading investors in the United States and perhaps the world. He has been the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at his company, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. since 1970. He has always been a constructive investor, interested in the long-run success of a corporation as distinguished from short-run profit. He won the Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award in 2002, the University of California, Berkeley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Financial Reporting in 2007, and the 2010 Medal of Freedom, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1992. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Ellen V. Futter | | | Institution: | American Museum of Natural History | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1949 | | | | | | |
Ellen V. Futter has been President of the American Museum of Natural History since 1993. Before joining the museum, she served as President of Barnard College for 13 years where, at the time of her inauguration, she was the youngest person to assume the presidency of a major American college. Committed to public service, Ms. Futter serves on the boards of several non-profit and for-profit organizations. She formerly served as Chairman of the Board of New York Federal Reserve Bank. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has received numerous honorary degrees and awards. Ms. Futter graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Barnard in 1971 and earned her J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1974. Her career began at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy where she practiced corporate law. Ellen V. Futter was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2009. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Alison Fettes Richard | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Professor Alison Richard, who was installed as the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on October 1, 2003, was the first woman to hold the position full time. She stepped down as Vice-Chancellor in 2010. An anthropologist with a first degree from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate from the University of London, Professor Richard joined the faculty of Yale University in 1972. She was appointed full professor in 1986, chairing the Department of Anthropology from 1986 to 1990 and later serving as Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. She was appointed Provost of Yale in April 1994 and oversaw major strengthening of Yale's financial position and significant growth in academic programs. At Cambridge, Professor Richard launched an ambitious fundraising campaign for one billion pounds to underpin and augment core expenditure, introduced new measures for the stewardship of the University's investments, and developed a bursary fund to ensure that undergraduate students and applicants are not disadvantaged by the national introduction of higher university tuition fees. She also sponsored internal policy initiatives, including a review of Cambridge's international relationships and its international student policy. Professor Richard holds honorary degrees from Peking University, China (2004), the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar (2005), York University, Canada (2006), the University of Edinburgh, UK (2006), Queens University Belfast (2008) and Anglia Ruskin University (2008). In 2005 she was appointed Officier de l'ordre National (Madagascar) and in 2008 she received the prestigious Addison Emery Verrill Medal from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Donna E. Shalala | | | Institution: | U.S. House of Representatives; University of Miami | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Donna E. Shalala is U.S. Representative for Florida's 27th Congressional District. Prior to her election in 2018 she was Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy at the University of Miami, having previously served as president of the University of Miami and Professor of Political Science (2001-15). During a two year leave from the University of Miami, she was president and chief executive officer of the Clinton Foundation (2015-17). Donna received her A.B. in history from Western College for Women and her Ph.D. from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She served as President of Hunter College of CUNY from 1980 to 1987, and as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993. In 1993, President Clinton nominated her as Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS) where she served for eight years. In 2008, President Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian award. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran from 1962-1964. In 2010, she received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights recognizing her dedication to improving the health and life chances of disadvantaged populations in South Africa and internationally. | |
| 5 | Name: | Mr. George Soros | | | Institution: | Soros Fund Management, LLC; Open Society Institute | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
George Soros is the Founder and Chairman of the Soros Fund Management, LLC and the Founder of the Open Society Institute. At the time of the transition in central and eastern Europe from communism to their current governments in the 1980s and early 1990s he emerged as one of the leading philanthropists in the world with his support for those societies. More recently he has become a social commentator, dealing both with philosophical and economic issues. To a rare degree his life encompasses improving the world with his own money based upon his philosophical reflections. He has written a number of books, including: The Alchemy of Finance, 1988; Opening the Soviet System, 1990; Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterprise and Democratic Reform Among the Soviets and in Eastern Europe, 1991; Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, 1995; The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, 1998; (with M. Notturno) Science and the Open Society: The Future of Karl Popper's Philosophy, 2000; Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, 2001; George Soros on Globalization, 2002; The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power, 2003; The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror, 2006; The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, 2008. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1998). | |
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