Ronald Lauder is Co-President of the ISOA Board of Directors, Co-Chairman of ADDF Board of Directors, and Chairman of The Estée Lauder Companies Clinique Laboratories. Mr. Lauder is an internationally prominent businessman, philanthropist, community and civic leader who is involved in a mosaic of charitable and professional endeavors that reach around the world. He is the former United States Ambassador to Austria, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, and has extensive knowledge of European history, fluency in European languages, and solid experience gained from his Pentagon position in the early ’80s as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO policy.