| 词条 | Barbara Barrett |
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|name = Barbara Barrett |image = Barbara McC Barrett.jpg |office = United States Ambassador to Finland |president = George W. Bush |term_start = May 23, 2008 |term_end = January 16, 2009 |predecessor = Marilyn Ware |successor = Michael Butler |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|12|26}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |party = Republican |education = Arizona State University, Tempe (BA, MA, JD) }} Barbara Barrett (born December 26, 1950)[1] is an American businesswoman and diplomat.[2] Barrett is chair of the Aerospace Corporation and a member of the boards of California Institute of Technology,[3] Jet Propulsion Laboratory, RAND Corporation, Smithsonian Institution, Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, and Lasker Foundation. Early life and educationBarrett earned her bachelor's, master's, and law degrees at Arizona State University. Honorary doctorates have been conferred by ASU, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Thunderbird, University of South Carolina, Pepperdine University and Finlandia University. Business careerBarrett was founding chair of Valley Bank of Arizona, partner in a large Phoenix law firm and, before she was 30, an executive of two global Fortune 500 companies. In her community, Barrett was chair of the Arizona District Export Council, World Affairs Council, and Economic Club of Phoenix. She also served on the boards of Space Foundation, Milton Hershey School, and Hershey Trust Company, Mayo Clinic, Exponent Corporation, Raytheon, and Piper Aircraft. Political and diplomatic careerGubernatorial campaignIn 1994, she was the first female Republican candidate for Governor of Arizona. She ran in the Republican primary against incumbent Governor Fife Symington, but failed to win her party's nomination.[4] U.S. Ambassador to FinlandIn 2008 and 2009, Barrett was U.S. Ambassador to Finland under President George W. Bush. Barrett was also a senior advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a participant with Global Leadership Foundation, Club of Madrid and World Economic Forum. She served as chairman for the State Department's Women's Economic Empowerment Working Group, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and U.S. Secretary of Commerce's Export Conference. Academic careerBarrett is a fellow teaching leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2012 Barrett was interim president[5] of Thunderbird School of Global Management, now a unit of the Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. She was CEO of the American Management Association. As a member of the U.S.-Afghan Women's Council, she founded Project Artemis,[6] a program to train and mentor Afghan women entrepreneurs at Thunderbird. In 2000, Barbara and her husband, the then-CEO of Intel, Craig Barrett, gave Arizona State University an endowment of $10 million,[7] and in consideration the Honors College was renamed Barrett, The Honors College.[7] Aviation careerAn instrument-rated pilot, Barrett was the first civilian woman to land in an F/A-18 Hornet on an aircraft carrier. In 2014, Barrett was inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame and received the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Presidential Medal from President Laurie Leshin.[8] She has trained as an astronaut, and was the backup spaceflight participant for the Soyuz TMA-16 flight to the International Space Station. Barrett was also deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board. Awards and recognitionBarrett has been recognized with the Administrators Award for Distinguished Service by the FAA, Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service, Horatio Alger Award for Distinguished Americans, Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship and Sandra Day O'Connor Board Excellence Award.[9] Personal lifeBarbara Barrett is married to Craig Barrett, retired chairman and CEO of Intel. She climbed Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro in August 2007 and bicycled 900 kilometers throughout Finland while Ambassador. References1. ^[https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_13677 Barrett, Barbara (12/26/1950- )] 2. ^Barbara Barrett, Executive Profile Bloomberg Businessweek, Retrieved March 2011 3. ^Barbara McConnell Barrett elected as New Trustee 4. ^Barbara Barrett, George W. Bush Presidential Center 5. ^Barbara Barrett named interim president at Thunderbird school Phoenix Business Journal, Retrieved April 2012 6. ^Thunderbird Names Ambassador Barbara Barrett Interim President 7. ^1 Barrett, The Honors College - Arizona State University 8. ^"Installation of Laurie Leshin as 16th president" 9. ^Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Lends Name to DirectWomen Award {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219021155/http://apps.americanbar.org/abanet/media/release/news_release.cfm?releaseid=158 |date=December 19, 2014 }} External links{{Commons category|Barbara Barrett}}
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