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 Laura Liswood
Secretary
General, Council of Women World Leaders
Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs
In August 1996, Laura Liswood co-founded the Council of Women World Leaders with
President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland and located it at the
Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University. Ms. Liswood is the Secretary
General of the Council, which is composed of women presidents, prime ministers,
and heads of government. The work of the Council expands the understanding of
leadership, establishes a network of resources for high-level women leaders, and
provides a forum for the group to contribute input and shape the international
issues important to all people. The Council moved the offices of its Secretariat
to Washington DC in 2004 and is now housed at
The Aspen Institute.
Laura Liswood holds the position of Senior Advisor,
Goldman Sachs, a premier
global investment bank. She was previously Managing Director, Global Leadership
and Diversity for Goldman Sachs.
In 1997, Liswood co-founded
The White House Project dedicated to
electing a woman President in the United States. Her work with women presidents
and prime ministers was the inspiration for the Project to change the cultural
message in the United States about women as leaders.
From 1992-1996, as director of the Women's Leadership Project, Liswood
identified global leadership contributions by women heads of state. She
interviewed 15 current and former women presidents and prime ministers, which is
chronicled in her most recent book and video documentary, Women World Leaders.
Her quest was to find out what it would take for a woman to become President of
the United States.
Liswood s professional experience includes CEO/President of the American Society
for Training and Development, executive-level consulting to Fortune 500 and
international companies, executive positions at Rainier National Bank and Group
W Cable, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable. She received the
Westinghouse Award of Excellence for her contribution to women and minorities in
the work place. She is also the author of a book on service quality,
Serving
Them Right.
Liswood, a nationally recognized speaker, author, and advisor, has contributed
to leadership in the women's community for more than twenty years as a member of
the International Women's Forum, Leadership America, the board of the First
Women s Bank of California, and the Washington Women's Political Caucus. Former
commissioner of the City of Seattle Women's Commission, Liswood was the
owner/publisher of Seattle Woman and is the founder of May's List, a bipartisan
political donor network emphasizing women s leadership in the political arena.
In 2000, the Secretary of Defense appointed her to a three-year term of the
Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS).
Liswood has also held management positions in the airline industry, including
general manager for the Pacific Northwest, for TWA, and was a consultant for the
Boston Consulting Group. She holds a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a
B.A. from California State University, San Diego. She holds a J.D. degree from
the University of California, Davis, School of Law, and is admitted to practice
law in California and Massachusetts. She is also a Sergeant in the Washington DC
Metropolitan reserve police force.
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