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| | 141 | Name: | Lieutenant General William E. Odom | | | Institution: | Hudson Institute; Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | May 30, 2008 | | | | |
| 142 | Name: | Mr. David Packard | | | Institution: | Hewlett-Packard Company | | | Year Elected: | 1989 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 3/26/96 | | | | |
| 143 | Name: | Dr. David W. Packard | | | Institution: | Packard Humanities Institute; Stanford Theatre Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | 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: | 1940 | | | | | | |
In 1985, David Packard developed the Ibycus Scholarly Computer, which was fully custom hardware and software and included a high-speed hardware "search engine." The machine was designed to read (and search) a CD-ROM containing large quantities of ancient Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. Nearly 300 of these were sold to universities and individual scholars to support teaching and research in these languages; many are still in use today. In 1987, he founded the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), one of the five largest foundations supporting the humanities in the nation, with the purpose of supporting the use of technology in the humanities. Most early PHI projects involved the creation of databases of historic texts, from Greek Epigraphy to Benjamin Franklin. In 1999, PHI expanded to include archaeology, music, film preservation, and education. In archaeology, PHI organized and funded a major conservation program at Herculaneum in Italy, an international archaeological initiative in Albania, and an emergency rescue excavation at Zeugma in Turkey, including the conservation of dozens of Roman mosaics. In music, PHI organized and funded a new scholarly edition of the complete works of CPE Bach and is collaborating with the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg to transform their definitive New Mozart Edition into a fully digital scholarly edition that can be kept up-to-date and will be freely available on the internet. In film preservation, PHI is building a new conservation center for the Library of Congress to house the Library's enormous collection of film, television, and recorded sound. PHI also provides major support for the UCLA Film and Television Archive. David Packard also founded the Stanford Theatre Foundation to renovate and operate the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto which for sixteen years has shown classic Hollywood films, all selected by Packard. | |
| 144 | Name: | Ms. Tracy P. Palandjian | | | Institution: | Social Finance | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1971 | | | | | | |
Tracy Palandjian is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance, a national impact finance and advisory nonprofit that builds innovative partnerships and investments to measurably improve lives. Since 2011, the organization has pioneered the use of innovative public-private partnerships and impact investment strategies, including the Social Impact Bond and the Career Impact Bond, to mobilize capital at scale and deliver sustainable impact in communities across the United States. Prior to Social Finance, Tracy was a Managing Director at The Parthenon Group from 1999 to 2010, where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice and worked with foundations and NGOs to accomplish their missions in the U.S. and globally. Tracy also worked at Wellington Management Company and McKinsey & Company. A frequent speaker and writer on ESG, impact investing, and policy innovation, Tracy is Vice Chair of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance. A native of Hong Kong, Tracy is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. Tracy previously served as Chair of the Board at Facing History and Ourselves and currently serves on the boards of The Surdna Foundation, The Boston Foundation, and Mass General Brigham. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected to the Harvard Corporation in 2022. | |
| 145 | Name: | Mr. Howard C. Petersen | | | Institution: | Fidelity Bank | | | Year Elected: | 1954 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 12/28/95 | | | | |
| 146 | Name: | Dr. Gerard Piel | | | Institution: | Scientific American | | | Year Elected: | 1963 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | September 5, 2004 | | | | |
| 147 | Name: | The Honorable Colin L. Powell | | | Institution: | America's Promise - Alliance for Youth & U.S. Army | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | Death Date: | October 18, 2021 | | | | | | |
Colin L. Powell served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001-05. Prior to and after this appointment, he worked as the chairman of America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing people from every sector of American life to build the character and competence of young people. Powell was a professional soldier for 35 years, during which time he held myriad command and staff positions and rose to the rank of 4-star General. His last assignment, from 1989-93, was as the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest military position in the Department of Defense. During this time, he oversaw 28 crises, including Operation Desert Storm in the 1991 Persian Gulf war. Following his retirement, Powell wrote his best-selling autobiography, My American Journey, which was published in 1995. Additionally, he pursued a career as a public speaker, addressing audiences across the country and abroad. Powell was born in New York City in 1937 and was raised in the South Bronx. He was educated in the New York City public schools, graduating from the City College of New York (CCNY), where he earned a bachelor's degree in geology. He also participated in ROTC at CCNY and received a commission as an Army second lieutenant upon graduation in June 1958. His further academic achievements include a Master of Business Administration degree from George Washington University. Powell is the recipient of numerous U.S. and foreign military awards and decorations. His civilian awards include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President's Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State Distinguished Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service Medal. | |
| 148 | Name: | Dr. Earl A. Powell | | | Institution: | National Gallery of Art | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | 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: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Earl A. Powell III of Washington, D.C. was director of the National Gallery of Art from 1992-2019 and is an expert in 19th- and 20th-century European and American art. He was an assistant professor of art history at the University of Texas from 1974-76. Between 1976 and 1980 he held curatorial posts at the National Gallery of Art. From 1980-92 Mr. Powell was director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which he transformed, according to Art in America magazine, "from a local institution to a museum of international stature." Mr. Powell serves as a trustee of the American Federation of the Arts, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the White House Historical Association, among others. He is a member of numerous arts organizations, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery Commission, and the Committee for the Preservation of the White House. Mr. Powell's awards include Norway's King Olav Medal and the Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France. Mr. Powell graduated with honors from Williams College and received his masters and doctorate degrees from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees in Fine Arts from Otis Parsons Art Institute and Williams College. In addition to writing many journal articles and exhibition catalogue essays, Mr. Powell has authored a monograph on the 19th-century American artist Thomas Cole. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1966-69 and was in the Naval Reserve from 1969-80. | |
| 149 | Name: | Mr. Eugene B. Power | | | Institution: | University Microfilms & Xerox Corporation | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 12/6/93 | | | | |
| 150 | Name: | Mr. Hugh B. Price | | | Institution: | National Urban League | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
Hugh Price, a leading spokesman for African Americans, was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League from 1994-2002. He was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and during his childhood he witnessed and became a part of many changes in that city as schools and neighborhoods became integrated. After graduating from Amherst College and Yale Law School, Mr. Price moved on to public broadcasting as Senior Vice President of WNET in New York, and in 1988 he entered the world of philanthropy as Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1994 he assumed the leadership of the National Urban League, the nation's premier social service and civil rights organization serving African Americans and others who are striving to enter the economic mainstream. Mr. Price has been described by The New York Times as one of the "true leaders... who will make things better for future generations." He is the author of the books Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible and Destination: the American Dream. He is currently senior advisor and co-chair of the Nonprofit and Philanthropy Practice Group for the law firm of Piper Rudnick. | |
| 151 | Name: | Dr. Don Michael Randel | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Don Michael Randel received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1967. He joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1968 and served as chair of the department of music (1971-76), vice-provost (1978-79), associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1989-91), the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1991-2000) Given Foundation Professor of Music (1990-2000) and provost (1995-2000). He became the president of the University of Chicago in 2000, serving until 2006. In July 2006 he became president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and he retired in May 2013. A musical scholar of major stature, Dr. Randel has a record of original contributions on matters as diverse as Mozarabic plainchant, Arabic music theory, the polyphony of early modern Europe, and the popular music of contemporary Central America in its encounter with the African- and Anglo-American musical scenes. At home in ethnomusicology, traditional musicology, modern literary theory, and medieval liturgy, Dr. Randel has long been a preeminent figure among musicologists and a favored mentor at Cornell. He has earned further esteem for his gentle, genial effectiveness as a high-level university administrator, bringing his powerful commitment to scholarship, to liberal education, and to realizing the ideals of an academic community to the service of the University of Chicago and now to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr. Randel is the author of The Responsorial Psalm Tones for the Mozarabic Office (1969); An Index to the Chant of the Mozarabic Rite (1973); Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music (1978); and The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (1986). He is a member of the American Musicological Society, where he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and served as its vice president (1977-78). In 2007 he was named a member of the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Randel was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 152 | Name: | Mr. R. Stewart Rauch | | | Institution: | PSFS | | | Year Elected: | 1957 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | November 16, 2001 | | | | |
| 153 | Name: | Mr. John S. Reed | | | Institution: | Citigroup | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | 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: | 1939 | | | | | | |
In April 2000, John S. Reed retired after a thirty-five year career with Citibank, Citicorp and Citigroup. He was elected Chairman and CEO of Citicorp and Citibank in September 1984. Citicorp merged with the Travelers Company in October 1998, subsequently he served as Chairman and Co-CEO of the new company: Citigroup. He served as Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from September 2003 until April 2005, and was elected to Chair the M.I.T. Corporation in July of 2010 and served until 2014. Mr. Reed was born in Chicago in 1939. He was raised in Argentina and Brazil, where his father was an executive with Armour and Co. Mr. Reed studied at Washington & Jefferson College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a joint degree program, earning both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in 1961. He returned to M.I.T. to earn a Master of Science from the Sloan School in 1965, after a year as a trainee with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio, and two years as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Reed is on the Board of Altria, a trustee of MDRC and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1998. | |
| 154 | Name: | Dr. James B. Reston | | | Institution: | New York Times | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 12/6/95 | | | | |
| 155 | Name: | Dr. Frank H. T. Rhodes | | | Institution: | American Philosophical Society & Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | February 3, 2020 | | | | | | |
Frank H. T. Rhodes was president of the American Philosophical Society and Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences and President Emeritus of Cornell University, where he served for eighteen years. Before assuming the presidency at Cornell in 1977, Dr. Rhodes was Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan. He was previously professor and head of the geology department and dean of the faculty of science at the University of Wales and a faculty member at the University of Illinois and the University of Durham. Dr. Rhodes was a graduate of the University of Birmingham, England, from which he held four degrees. A Fulbright scholar and Fulbright distinguished fellow, a National Science Foundation senior visiting fellow, and a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Oxford, he was also a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and an honorary fellow of both Robinson College, Cambridge and the University of Wales, Swansea. Dr. Rhodes was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was the recipient of the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society, the Justin Morrill Award of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Higher Education Leadership Award of the Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Clark Kerr Medal of the University of California, Berkeley Faculty Senate, and the Ian Campbell Medal of the American Geological Institute. He was the 1999 Jefferson Lecturer at Berkeley.
Dr. Rhodes was appointed by President Reagan as a member of the National Science Board, which he chaired for a time, and was appointed by President Bush as a member of the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee. He served as chair of the governing boards of the American Council on Education, the American Association of Universities, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2008 he was named to the board of trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Rhodes has published widely in the fields of geology, paleontology, evolution, the history of science, and education. His books included Language of the Earth, The Evolution of Life, The Creation of the Future, and Earth: A Tenant's Manual. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1991. Frank H. T. Rhodes died on February 3, 2020, at the age of 93. | |
| 156 | Name: | Ms. Rebecca W. Rimel | | | Institution: | The Pew Charitable Trusts | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1951 | | | | | | |
Rebecca W. Rimel is president and chief executive officer of The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit organization driven by the power of knowledge to solve some of today’s most challenging problems. Rebecca Rimel joined The Pew Charitable Trusts in 1983 as health program manager. She became executive director in 1988 and accepted her current position in 1994. As president, she has helped make Pew one of the nation’s most innovative and influential nonprofits. During her 20 years at the helm, Pew has become known for its entrepreneurial, results-based approach. Additionally, Rebecca Rimel serves on the board of directors for the Deutsche Bank Scudder Funds and ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism, as well as the PNC Bank advisory board. She is also a trustee emeritus of Monticello (the Thomas Jefferson Foundation); a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; and a member of the American Philosophical Society and its prestigious Wistar Association. Prior to joining Pew, Rebecca Rimel built an exemplary career in health care, specifically in nursing. From 1981 through 1983, she was assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, making her the first nurse to hold a faculty position in the university’s medical school. Along with additional teaching and practitioner positions at the University of Virginia Hospital, she served as head nurse of the medical center’s emergency department. During her tenure, Rebecca Rimel authored and co-authored many scientific articles, abstracts and book chapters pertaining to head injury. Rebecca Rimel earned a bachelor of science degree, with distinction, from the University of Virginia School of Nursing in 1973 and a master of business administration from James Madison University in 1983. In 1982, she was awarded a Kellogg National Fellowship, a four-year professional enrichment opportunity for emerging leaders. In 1988, she received the Distinguished Nursing Alumni Award from the University of Virginia and, in 1999, the University of Virginia Women’s Center Distinguished Alumni Award. | |
| 157 | Name: | Dr. S. Dillon Ripley | | | Institution: | Smithsonian Institution | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | 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? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | March 12, 2001 | | | | |
| 158 | Name: | Professor Dorothy E. Roberts | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | 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: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Dorothy E. Roberts is 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, Professor of Africana Studies, Center for Africana Studies, Research Associate, Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980.
Dorothy Roberts is the founding director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Program on Race, Science, and Society. She works at the intersection of law, social justice, science, and health, focusing on social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and bioethics. She has written extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues. Noteworthy among her studies are those of community-level effects of concentrated child welfare involvement in African American neighborhoods and race consciousness in biomedicine, law, and social policy. Her book Killing the Black Body received the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Book Award and the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal. Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare received the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Outstanding Achievement of Cultural Competency in Child Maltreatment, Prevention, and Intervention Award.
She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty, 1997; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, 2001; Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century, 2011; and Torn Apart: How The Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, 2022. She is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (board, 2015- ); National Academy of Medicine, 2017; and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2022. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2023. | |
| 159 | Name: | Dr. Judith Rodin | | | Institution: | The Rockefeller Foundation; University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
In 1994, Dr. Judith Rodin became the first woman to be named to the presidency of an Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania, after 22 years on the faculty of Yale University, where she served as Provost from 1992-94. During a decade of service Dr. Rodin guided the University of Pennsylvania through a period of unprecedented growth and development that transformed Penn's academic core and dramatically enhanced the quality of life on campus and in the surrounding community. She held faculty appointments as a professor of psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences and as a professor of medicine and psychiatry in the School of Medicine. Judith Rodin serves on the boards of the Brookings Institution and Catalyst, and on the boards of Aetna, Inc., AMR Corporation, Citigroup and Comcast Corporation. She became president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world's oldest and largest private philanthropies, in March 2005 and served as president until 2017. In 2015 she won the Edmund Bacon Prize of the Philadelphia Center for Architecture. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1995. | |
| 160 | Name: | Dr. Martine A. Rothblatt | | | Institution: | United Therapeutics | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | | | |
Martine Rothblatt founded United Therapeutics in 1996 and has served as chairman and chief executive officer since the inception of the company. Prior to creating United Therapeutics, Dr. Rothblatt founded and served as chairman and chief executive officer of Sirius Satellite Radio and was principally responsible for several other unique applications of satellite communications technology. She also represented the radio astronomy interests of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Radio Frequencies before the Federal Communications Commission. On behalf of the International Bar Association, she led efforts to present the United Nations with a draft Human Genome Treaty. She moved to biotechnology from satellite technology and started United Therapeutics in 1996 to find a cure or better treatment for primary pulmonary hypertension that affects one of her daughters, a disease that was deadly at the time. It sells five FDA-approved drugs to help people with the disease. Now publicly traded, the company is experimenting with pig cloning and genetic modification to create lung transplants the human body doesn’t reject.
Dr. Rothblatt received a combined Law and Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. in medical ethics from the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary College, University of London. Her book, "Your Life or Mine: How Geoethics Can Resolve the Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation," was published by Ashgate in 2004. Dr. Rothblatt is a member of the International Institute of Space Law and the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Bar Association. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. She received the Meritorious Service to Aviation Award of the NBAA in 2021. | |
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