BIOGRAPHY
Ira C. Magaziner

Ira C. Magaziner currently serves as the Chairman of the Clinton Climate Initiative and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative. He is also on the board of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Clinton Hunter Development Institute.

From 1993 through 1998, he served as Senior Advisor to President Clinton for Policy Development at the White House. In this capacity, he supervised the development and implementation of the administration's policy for commercialization of the Internet and worked with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on the development of the President's Health Reform Initiative. Mr. Magaziner also chaired a joint National Economic Council/National Security Council Initiative to increase US exports and served as a member of the National Domestic Policy Council.

Prior to his White House appointment, Mr. Magaziner earned respect as one of America's most successful corporate strategists, building two successful corporate strategy consulting firms and assisting major corporations in developing their business strategies. Prior to forming his own companies, he worked in Boston, London and Tokyo for the Boston Consulting Group.

He also served as co-chairman of the National Commission on Skills of the American Workforce with former Labor Secretaries Bill Brock and Ray Marshall, co-authoring the landmark report "America's Choice - High Skills or Low Wages." Mr. Magaziner graduated in 1969 as valedictorian from Brown University and attended Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from Brown University, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maryland and the New England Institute of Technology.

Mr. Magaziner has served on the boards of numerous charitable and educational organizations nationally and in his home state of Rhode Island.