Joshua Brewster Bolten is an American lawyer and politician. Bolten served as the White House chief of staff to U.S. president George W. Bush,replacing Andrew Card on April 14,2006. Previously,he served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2003 to 2006.
Margaret Cushing Whitman is an American business executive,diplomat,and politician serving as the United States ambassador to Kenya since 2022. Whitman was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of eBay from 1998 to 2008. Afterwards,she became president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise from 2011 to 2015,during the company's major split. She then served as the CEO of Quibi from its launch in 2018 until its closure in 2020. A member of the Republican Party,she ran for governor of California but was defeated by former governor Jerry Brown in the 2010 gubernatorial election. Whitman was a senior presidential campaign official for Republican Mitt Romney in both 2008 and 2012,although she supported Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in the 2016 presidential election and the 2020 presidential election,respectively.
Transylvania University is a private university in Lexington,Kentucky. It was founded in 1780 and was the first university in Kentucky. It offers 46 major programs,as well as dual-degree engineering programs,and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Its medical program graduated 8,000 physicians by 1859.
Stephen Friedman is the former chairman of the US President's Intelligence Advisory Board. He was nominated on October 27,2005,to replace Brent Scowcroft in the position.
John Cunningham Whitehead was an American banker and civil servant,a board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation,and,until his resignation in May 2006,chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Lloyd Craig Blankfein is an American investment banker who has served as senior chairman of Goldman Sachs since 2019,and chairman and chief executive from 2006 until the end of 2018. Previous to leading Goldman Sachs,he was the company's president and chief operating officer (COO) from 2004 to 2006,serving under then-CEO Henry Paulson.
Steve Coll is an American journalist,academic and executive.
John Lawson Thornton is an American businessman and professor and director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also executive chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation and non-executive chairman of PineBridge Investments. Thornton stepped down as co-president of Goldman Sachs in 2003.
Paul Finkelman is an American legal historian. He is the author or editor of more than 50 books on American legal and constitutional history,slavery,general American history and baseball. In addition,he has authored more than 200 scholarly articles on these and many other subjects. From 2017 - 2022,Finkelman served as the President and Chancellor of Gratz College,Melrose Park,Pennsylvania.
Andrew Alper was the President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC).
John Michael Evans is a Canadian technology executive and the President of Alibaba Group. He previously spent 20 years working for U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs and is a former Olympic rower.
The abolition of slavery occurred at different times in different countries. It frequently occurred sequentially in more than one stage –for example,as abolition of the trade in slaves in a specific country,and then as abolition of slavery throughout empires. Each step was usually the result of a separate law or action. This timeline shows abolition laws or actions listed chronologically. It also covers the abolition of serfdom.
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale,commonly known as the MacMillan Center,is a research and educational center for international affairs and area studies at Yale University. It is named after Whitney MacMillan and his wife Betty.
Horace Holley was an American Unitarian minister and president of Transylvania University in Lexington,Kentucky.
Reuben Jeffery III is the former United States Under Secretary of State for Economic,Business,and Agricultural Affairs,having been appointed to that position by United States President George W. Bush in June 2007. Presently,Reuben Jeffery III is the President,Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of Rockefeller &Co. and Rockefeller Financial Services,Inc. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee of J. Rothschild Capital Management Limited.
Abdul Tejan-Cole is a Sierra Leonean Oku legal practitioner and former Commissioner of Sierra Leone's Anti-Corruption Commission. He was awarded the 2001 Human Rights Watch award.
Maurice Manning is an American poet. His first collection of poems,Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions,was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award,chosen by W.S. Merwin. Since then he has published four collections of poetry. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Transylvania University in Lexington,Kentucky,where he oversees the Judy Gaines Young Book Award,and is a member of the poetry faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
Charles L. Shearer is an American academic. He served as the 24th president of Transylvania University in Lexington,Kentucky ending his long tenure during the summer of 2010. Shearer is the longest-serving president in the university's 230-year history.
Scott Mead is an American fine art photographer,philanthropist,and investor currently based in London. After an early career in photography,Mead relocated to London in 1988,where as a partner at Goldman Sachs,he became known for overseeing and negotiating large telecommunications and technology mergers. In 2000 he was chief advisor on Vodafone's $200 billion buyout of Mannesmann,considered the largest corporate takeover in history. After joining Apax Partners in 2006,Mead joined the investment group of the Boston Celtics before co-founding Richmond Park Partners (RPP) in 2007.
James H. Donovan is an American investment banker who is Vice Chairman of Global Client Coverage at Goldman Sachs. Donovan is also an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia whose YouTube videos have received over two and a half million views.
