Biography

David Leebron has been a director of the Company since September 2003. He has served as University Professor and President Emeritus at Rice University since 2022. Previous to that, he served as President of Rice University from 2004 to 2022. In the fall of 2022, he was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School. In 2024, Mr. Leebron was named the president and chief executive officer of Texas 2036, a non-partisan non-profit policy organization. Prior to 2004, Mr. Leebron held the position of Dean of Columbia Law School from 1996 to 2004 and Professor of Law from 1989 to 1996, teaching international economic law, international human rights, corporate finance and torts.

Mr. Leebron is on the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as the chair of the Association of American Universities (AAU) from 2016 to 2017. He currently serves on the boards of the Universities Research Association and the Higher Education Advisory Board for Anthropic.

Mr. Leebron brings his broad legal experience, leadership, strategic, and management skills as former President of Rice University and former Dean of Columbia Law School to the Board, which make him well suited to assess legal risks and other challenges faced by the Company, as well as to apply his experience to governance issues faced by the Company and the Board.