president of the van Loben Sels Foundation. A senior advisor/retired partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman LLP, she has served on the boards of AT&T Inc., AEGEON, Potlatch, Transamerica, Pacific Telesis, Safeco and APL Ltd. She advises the Rock Center at Stanford, is past chair of ACT in San Francisco and past president of the Commonwealth Club. She was an undergraduate at Geneva University in Switzerland and the University of Washington, where she also received her law degree.