President, Markle Foundation
Co-Chair, Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age
Zoë Baird Budinger is President of the Markle Foundation, a private philanthropy that focuses on using information and communications technologies to address critical public needs, particularly in the areas of health care and national security.
Ms. Baird Budinger's career spans business, government, and academia. Prior to joining the Markle Foundation, she was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Aetna, Inc., a Senior Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School, Counselor and staff Executive at General Electric, and a Partner in the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. She was also Associate General Counsel to President Jimmy Carter and an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice.
She served on President Clinton's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1993–2001, on the Secretary of Defense’s Privacy Advisory Committee from 2003–2004, and on the Attorney General’s International Competition Policy Advisory Committee from 1997–2000.
Ms. Baird Budinger serves on a number of non-profit and corporate boards including the Brookings Institution, the Chubb Corporation, and Boston Properties.
She is also Co-Chairman of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age and participates in the Steering Group of Markle Connecting for Health.
