wal-mart stores inc
(WMT:New York Consolidated)

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Ms. Sylvia Mathews Burwell has been the President of Walmart Foundation at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. since October 2011. Ms. Burwell serves as President, Global Development Program of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ms. Burwell serves as Executive Director, Libraries & Pacific Northwest giving of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is responsible to oversees the foundation’s efforts to help the world’s poorest people lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. Burwell ... leads Global Development’s grantmaking and advocacy in agricultural development; financial services for the poor; water, sanitation, and hygiene; global libraries; and special initiatives. She served as Chief Operating Officer of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 2002 to April 2006. She joined Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2001 as an Executive Vice President. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C. since 1998. From 1997 to 1998, she served as Assistant to the President, Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton. From 1995 to 1997, she served as Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and also served as staff director for the National Economic Council from 1993 to 1995. Ms. Burwell served as Manager of President Clinton's economic transition team from 1992 to 1993. Prior to that, she was an associate at McKinsey and Company from 1990 to 1992. She has been Director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of MetLife Inc. since January 2004. She serves as a Director of Council on Foreign Relations Inc. She served as a Director at MetLife, Inc. since January 21, 2004 until April 19, 2013. She is a member of the University of Washington Medicine board, the Pacific Council on International Policy, CSIS Smart Power Commission, the Aspen Strategy Group, the Trilateral Commission, Nike Foundation Advisory Group, and the CFR Task Force on Transatlantic Relations for the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. she is a visiting committee member of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Governing Council member of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. She received an A.B. degree in Government, cum laude, from Harvard University in 1987 and a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

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