Harold Ford, Jr.

Vice Chairman and Senior Policy Advisor, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Harold Ford, Jr. served Tennessee in the United States Congress for 10 years. Described by President Bill Clinton as "the walking, living embodiment of where America ought to go in the 21st century," Ford is now chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, visiting professor of public policy at Vanderbilt University, and vice chairman and senior policy advisor at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Ford also serves on the Pentagon's Transformation Advisory Group (TAG), an assembly of current and former military commanders, political figures, academics and business leaders who advise the Pentagon on how to modernize our Armed Forces to meet and defeat 21st century threats.

Ford is also an overseer on the board of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an analyst for NBC News. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he got his B.A. in American history, and the University of Michigan Law School. He lives in Memphis and Nashville and has offices in New York and Nashville.