Lunch with Ambassador Carla Hills

Yale-in-Washington is proud to present:

Lunch with Ambassador Carla Hills.

Carla A. Hills is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Hills & Company.  Ambassador Hills served as U.S. Trade Representative (1989-93) in the Bush (41) Administration and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, in the Ford Administration.  Over the years, Ambassador Hills has served on a number of publicly traded corporate boards and currently sits on one.  She also serves on a number of not-for-profit boards including as Chair of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and of the Inter-American Dialogue; Co-Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations; member of the Executive Committee for the Peterson Institute for International Economics and of the Trilateral Commission, Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and member of the board of the International Crisis Group.  Before entering government, Ambassador Hills co-founded and was a partner in a major Los Angeles law firm.  She also served as Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles Law School teaching antitrust law and co-authored The Antitrust Advisor, published by McGraw Hill.  She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, her law degree from ale University, and studied at Oxford.  She holds a number of honorary degrees, and in 2000, she was awarded the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor given by the Mexican government to a non-citizen.