The Clinton Foundation to Welcome Donna Shalala
New York, NY – Today,
the Clinton Foundation announced that Donna E. Shalala, President of
the University of Miami and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services (HHS), will join the Foundation as President and Chief
Executive Officer.
"Donna has more than 30 years of experience
improving communities and changing lives for the better – as a scholar,
leader in health care, and university president. We are excited that she
intends to join the Clinton Foundation as President and Chief Executive
Officer after she completes her final year as President of the
University of Miami," said Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton. "Her
leadership will enable the Clinton Foundation to build on our nearly 15
years of helping millions of people around the world live their best
life story, and we have no doubt that she will be a great asset in
strengthening the Clinton Foundation’s future."
Shalala, who has
served as Professor of Political Science and President of the University
of Miami since 2001, announced last September that she would step down
on June 1, 2015, at the end of the current school year. During her 14
year tenure as President of the University of Miami, the University has
solidified its position among the top research universities in the
nation and she has led two successful billion-dollar fundraising
campaigns at UM raising nearly $3 billion.
Shalala previously
served as President of Hunter College of the City University of New York
and Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 1993
President Bill Clinton appointed her U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services (HHS) where she served for eight years, becoming the longest
serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history. In 2007, President George W. Bush
recognized her extraordinary public service with the Presidential Medal
of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. She has also received
the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights, the Harry S.
Truman Legacy of Leadership Award, and she was inducted into the
National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls. She co-chaired with
Senator Bob Dole the Commission on Care for Returning Wounded Warriors
and chaired the Committee on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute of Medicine and the National
Academy of Sciences.
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