Barbara M. Barrett

Barbara Barrett is an American businesswoman and diplomat. Barrett is Chairman of the Aerospace Corporation and a member of the boards of California Institute of Technology, Sally Ride Science, RAND Corporation, Smithsonian Institution, Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans and Lasker Foundation. She and her husband Craig own Triple Creek Ranch in Montana, named by Travel + Leisure as the best hotel in the world for 2014. In 2012 Barrett served as Interim President of Thunderbird School of Global Management, in a time of transition between former president Ángel Cabrera and current president Larry Penley. In 2008 and 2009, Barrett was U.S. Ambassador to Finland. Previously, Barrett was Senior Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, a Fellow teaching Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, CEO of the American Management Association, Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and Vice Chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board. She also served on the boards of Space Foundation, Milton Hershey School and Hershey Trust Company, Mayo Clinic, Exponent Corporation, Raytheon and Piper Aircraft.