Baker Institute Director: Ambassador David M. Satterfield
The Honorable David M. Satterfield is the director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He has more than four decades of diplomatic and leadership experience, including service as special envoy for the Horn of Africa, assistant secretary of state, National Security Council staff director and as ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey and charge’ d’affaires in Iraq and Egypt.
Satterfield’s extensive bilateral and multinational negotiating background most notably includes the 1995 Roadmap for Israel-Palestinian Peace (with the United Nations), the 2000 withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces from Lebanon and Blue Line boundary agreement (with the United Nations), and the 2008 Status of Forces Agreement between the U.S. and Iraq. As the State Department’s coordinator for Iraq, he managed the largest domestic staff in the department’s history and directed fundamental reforms to the Foreign Service.
As director general of the Multinational Force and Observers, Satterfield conceived and directed the comprehensive modernization of military and civilian peacekeeping operations and led fundraising efforts with the U.S. Congress and donor governments.
Among other honors, Satterfield is the recipient of the highest Department of State recognition, the Secretary of State Distinguished Service Award, and the highest award for senior federal executives, the Office of Personnel Management Distinguished Federal Executive Rank Award.
Satterfield is a graduate of the University of Maryland and speaks Arabic, French and Italian. He is married to Elizabeth Ann Fritschle, a career Foreign Service officer.
“We are here because we believe that this institute, drawing on Rice University’s long tradition of public service and academic excellence, can help bring a fresh, informed and incisive voice to our national debate.”
Secretary James A. Baker, III
Honorary Chair
- The Honorable Linnet Deily
Chair, Baker Institute Board of Advisors
Former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative - L.E. Simmons
Co-Chair, Baker Institute Board of Advisors
Founder and President, SCF Partners - Greg L. Armstrong
Co-founder and Retired Chairman and CEO, Plains All American Pipeline, L.P - James A. Baker IV
Retired Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P. - Carin Barth
Co-founder and President, LB Capital,Inc. - Laura D. Bellows
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Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - Jay A. Brown
President and CEO, Crown Castle International Corp. - Benjamin Cheng
Principal, Transnational Management Limited - Haydeh Davoudi
Owner and Operator, EPIC Sporthorses - Thomas J. Falk
Retired Chairman and CEO, Kimberly-Clark - Ann Fox
President and CEO, Nine Energy Service - Jeffery D. Hildebrand
Executive Chairman and Founder, Hilcorp Energy Company - Jeffrey C. Hines
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Co-founder, Genesis Park - Robert Steven Kaplan
Former President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - Robert T. Ladd
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Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees - José-Alberto Lima
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Chief Executive Officer, Avetta - Franci Neely
Philanthropist and Former Trial Attorney - Wade Rakes
President and Chief Executive Officer, Peach State Health Plan - The Honorable John F.W. Rogers
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Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Management
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Chairman and CEO, Smith Graham & Co. - Ann Stern
President and CEO, Houston Endowment - Guillermo “Memo” Treviño
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Retired Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees - Uwem Ukpong
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Advisor, Amiri Diwan, Qatar - The Honorable Hushang Ansary
Chairman, Parman Capital Group - E. William Barnett
Retired Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees
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Retired Chairman, President and CEO, Marathon Oil Corporation - James W. Crownover
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Retired Chair, Rice University Board of Trustees - The Honorable Edward P. Djerejian
Founding Director, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy
Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria and to Israel - Claudio X. González
Chairman of the Board, Kimberly-Clark de México - Steven L. Miller
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Former Chairman, President and CEO, Shell Oil Company - Beth Robertson
President, Cockspur, Inc.
President, Westview Development, Inc. - Marc J. Shapiro
Non-Executive Chairman, JP Morgan Chase & Co. — Texas Operations - Wallace S. Wilson
Retired Chairman, Wilson Industries
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The Honorable James A. Baker, III
61st U.S. Secretary of State
Honorary Chair, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy
Reginald DesRoches
President, Rice University
The Honorable David M. Satterfield
Director, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy
Former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey
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