Zoë Baird

President, The Markle Foundation

Zoë Baird is president of the Markle Foundation, where she has led Markle's collaborative efforts to deploy information technology to reform the intelligence community to meet current threats, and to catalyze improvements in health care. Previously, she initiated Markle's work with the UN and others to expand Internet access in developing countries and to build Internet governance institutions such as ICANN. She is currently leading an initiative to expand middle class economic security in a networked world. Ms. Baird was appointed to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1994-2000), the G-8 Heads of State Digital Opportunity Task Force (2000-2002), the Congressional Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community (1995), the Secretary of Defense's Technology and Policy Advisory Committee (2003-2004), and the NSA Advisory Board Cyber Awareness and Response Panel (2010-2011). She served as senior vice president and general counsel of Aetna (1990-1996) and associate counsel to the president (1980-1981). She is on the boards of Chubb and Boston Properties, and is an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution. She holds a J.D. from the University of California Berkeley. She splits her time between New York and Colorado.