Linda LeSourd Lader
 Linda LeSourd Lader     (lobbyist, priest) | |
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| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater | Yale Divinity School, Ohio Wesleyan University |
| Religion | Christian |
| Spouse | Philip Lader |
| Founder of | Renaissance Weekend |
| Member of | British-American Project |
The wife of Philip Lader, the corporate networker and former US ambassador to the UK. Advised President Clinton on personal issues pertaining to religion. | |
Linda LeSourd Lader is the wife of Philip Lader, the corporate networker and former US ambassador to the UK.
Education
Linda LeSourd Lader's education includes degrees from Yale Divinity School and Ohio Wesleyan University.[1]
Career
Ordained a Presbyterian minister, she worked in the pastoral staff of Washington, D.C.'s historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church for ten years. She associated with the National Prayer Breakfast Ministries throughout the 1970s, and coordinated the 1979 National Prayer Breakfast.[1]
From 1993-1997 Linda advised President Clinton and the White House on public policy and personal issues pertaining to religion and faith. Previously she coordinated the National Prayer Breakfast, organized women’s retreats and conferences and worked in lay ministry. She and her husband, Ambassador Philip Lader, have two adult daughters.[2]
Together they co-founded and continue to host Renaissance Weekends, private, invitation-only retreats for leaders in business and finance, government, the media, religion, medicine, science, technology and the arts. Conversations are strictly off the record and subject matter ranges widely, tending to focus heavily on policy and business issues.
