William Samuel White

William S. White is chairman, president, and chief executive officer of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation of Flint, Michigan. He has been with the Foundation since 1969, has been its president since 1976, and has served as chairman since 1988.

Mr.White currently serves on the boards of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, and the European Foundation Centre. He is also chairman of the United States Sugar Corporation, a member of the board of American Water Works Company, Inc., and currently serves on several other corporate and civic boards. Past affiliations include service on the boards of National Enterprises, Inc.; Independent Sector; GMI Engineering & Management Institute (now Kettering University), and the Council on Foundations and former chairmanof its International Committee. In the 1980's he was a member of President Ronald Reagan's task force on private sector initiatives. Activities in the 1990's have included service on the Carter Center's observer delegation to the Palestinian elections on the U.S. Presidential Delegation led by former Ambassador Holbrooke to observe the elections in Bosnia, and on a Presidential Economic and Business Development Mission to Croatia and Bosnia. Mr. White has been on the board of what is now the Community Foundation of Greater Flint and has served as chairman and board member of the Council of Michigan Foundations. In addition, he was a lay reader in his church.

Mr. White is married and has two children. He received a B.A. and M.B.A. from Dartmouth College, and is the recipient of several honorary degrees. Prior work experience included Wall Street and management consulting.

The Mott Foundation, with 1999 year-end assets of $3.23 billion, awarded 580 grants totaling almost $113.9 million to domestic and foreign nonprofits in 1999. The Foundation has field offices in Prague, Czech Republic, and Johannesburg, South Africa.