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Assertion contradicts remarks offered last spring by a veteran State Department official.
WASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. Energy Department official on Wednesday disputed reports that the Obama administration has sought Mongolian support for construction of a storage site for international spent nuclear fuel in the Central Asian nation.
The assertion -- made by a high-ranking official who asked not to be named in addressing a diplomatically sensitive issue -- directly countered remarks offered last spring by a veteran State Department official who leads U.S. nuclear trade pact negotiations.
The diplomat, Richard Stratford, told a Washington audience in March that Energy Department leaders had made initial contacts with their counterparts in Ulaanbaatar about potential cooperation on a range of nuclear fuel services that Mongolia would like to develop for international buyers.
Among the possible features of a joint project, Stratford said, could be the creation of a repository for U.S.-origin fuel that has been used by Washington's partners in the region, potentially including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
If brought to fruition, the proposal would be "a very positive step forward," he said at the time, because no nation around the globe thus far has successfully built a long-term storage facility for dangerous nuclear waste.
The Obama administration in 2009 shuttered plans for a U.S. storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada -- which would have been the world's only permanent repository -- after prolonged debate over potential environmental and health hazards.
In an interview this week with Global Security Newswire, the high-level Energy Department official said that discussions have focused on an array of potential nuclear energy market roles for Mongolia, from mining its substantial uranium reserves to fabricating fuel and more.
However, the unofficial talks have not broached the idea of Mongolia becoming a recipient of foreign-origin spent fuel, the senior figure said.
"I never thought about U.S. spent fuel. Never," the Energy official said. "I never even thought about it, much less discussed it."
The Obama administration generally supports the idea of creating international operations for waste storage and other fuel-cycle functions that might help stem global nuclear proliferation, but "what the Mongolian government and the Mongolian people end up deciding they want to do is completely their decision and I would not dream of imposing our views on that," the senior official said.
"There's no discussion of an international spent-fuel repository," added a second Energy Department official who participated in the same interview. "What has been included as part of the comprehensive fuel services discussions are potential long-term storage of Mongolian-origin used fuel that has Mongolian uranium [in it]."
Adding Value
An evolving concept of nuclear fuel "leasing" would have the Mongolians build on their existing uranium ore resources to ultimately provide reactor-ready fuel to foreign nations and, additionally, stand ready to take back used uranium fuel rods once they are depleted, according to reports.
The idea, said the more junior Energy official, is that Mongolia could "potentially add long-term storage as part of the value of that uranium resource to potential buyers."
Even if foreign-origin spent fuel cannot be stored in Mongolia, the nation's talks with its international partners might yet allow for U.S., Japanese or other companies to build facilities in the Central Asian nation to produce Mongolian fuel for sale abroad, which could later be returned to Ulaanbaatar for storage after it is used.
The Mongolian Embassy in Washington on Thursday declined comment.
The senior official chalked up the seeming disconnect between Energy and State to a simple misunderstanding, noting that the U.S. Embassy in Mongolia also initially denied Stratford's assertions about a potential international repository in an April statement.
The Mongolian foreign minister went a step further the following month, denying that talks with the United States and Japan had touched on the disposition of atomic waste of any national origin, according to a report by China's Xinhua News Agency.
As a developing nation, Mongolia might derive substantial economic benefit if it agreed to accept foreign spent fuel. However, the idea has become a political lightning rod, with the opposition Green Party charging that a waste facility could become an environmental and safety nightmare.
A number of quiet steps toward international collaboration, though, have already taken place.
Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman in September 2010 signed a memorandum of understanding with Mongolian Foreign Minister Gombojav Zandanshatar, pledging future cooperation on civil nuclear power. Japan was also a party to the draft agreement, which has not been released but reportedly included a passage referring to Mongolia as a future destination for spent fuel.
In Ulaanbaatar to ink the document, Poneman is said to have participated in a long discussion about Mongolia's nuclear trade aspirations with Undraa Agvaanluvsan, an ambassador-at-large at the nation's Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry.
In that conversation, the notion of Mongolia potentially accepting foreign-origin spent fuel "didn't come up," and "Dick Stratford wasn't there," the senior Energy Department official said in the interview.
The official acknowledged, though, that in the course of these bilateral discussions, the U.S. side raised a number of ideas with the Mongolians, but some were quickly dismissed.
"We were brainstorming these ideas, but they were just ideas that we were brainstorming," the Energy official said. "And it was not anything that, frankly, got beyond that."
A State Department spokeswoman this week directed a reporter to the Energy Department for any comment.
Changing Landscape
"I happen to think the Mongolians are just teasing a very excitable bureaucracy, until the U.S. is too committed to a '123' agreement to back out even without the waste dump," nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis, referring to the possibility of a bilateral nuclear trade pact, wrote in an April blog post.
"Certain people at the Department of Energy do believe Mongolia will agree to host a waste repository and are having relevant discussions," he stated in another post the following month. Lewis directs the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
Mongolian officials traveled to Washington for Energy Department meetings in February and again in August, U.S. government sources confirmed. Just prior to arriving in Washington for the August meetings, a group of working-level Mongolian officials visited the Idaho National Laboratory, where the Energy Department maintains wet and dry spent-fuel storage facilities.
"The discussions began a year ago and the whole scene looked a little bit different from [how] it looks now," the senior U.S. Energy official noted.
The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan, triggered March 11 by a major earthquake and tsunami, heightened concern about the safety of civil nuclear power facilities worldwide.
The crisis in Japan was mounting just as word began to leak in the news media that Ulaanbaatar was in the midst of closed-door discussions about jumping headlong into the nuclear energy market, a prospect that took many Mongolians by surprise. Revelations that the nation might construct a storage site somewhere in its expansive territory for foreign nuclear fuel further stoked public anxiety there.
In July, Kyodo News reported that the head of Toshiba -- the Japanese parent company to U.S. nuclear energy firm Westinghouse -- had written to Poneman to voice his company's continued support for the largely secret "Comprehensive Fuel Supply" or "CFS" effort in Mongolia, despite industry setbacks posed by the Fukushima disaster.
"We must recognize that the CFS project has now been publicized around the world," Norio Sasaki, Toshiba's president and chief executive officer, wrote in the letter, obtained by GSN. "As anti-CFS opposition can be anticipated, it is essential for the parties to the project to promote closer coordination in order to secure continued progress."
This disclosure and others prompted some in the public to "doubt the integrity of the Mongolian state," Dangaasuren Enkhbat, a Green Party member of parliament, said earlier this month at a government meeting on the matter.
"I think these external talks were no mere talks," he said. "In order to stop these talks, the people who participated in these external talks must be called to responsibility."
"Mongolia is not an awfully democratic state," said one U.S. expert who asked not to be named, citing controversy over the issue. "The ways in which they are engaging in this [discussion] shows how they are not fully democratic."
Growing political outcry and public protests forced the Mongolian president, Tsakhia Elbegdorj, to address in greater detail exactly what Ulaanbaatar was discussing with foreign capitals.
On Sept. 9 he issued a decree prohibiting formal talks about "cooperation on nuclear disposal with any country or international organization," unless such negotiations are authorized by the country's national security council, Kyodo News reported.
Speaking at the government meeting four days later, Elbegdorj said the new presidential order "clearly" dictates that public officials "refrain from participation on behalf of Mongolia in any talks or negotiations held under pressure of a foreign country."
Several issue experts interpreted his released remarks as a signal that Ulaanbaatar was effectively ruling out -- at least for now -- the creation of a repository for foreign spent fuel, regardless of whether the option had been earlier left open in private discussions with his U.S. or Japanese interlocutors.
In Mongolia, there is a search for "political cover and some amount of political consensus" on the issue, Mark Hibbs, a Berlin-based senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment's Nuclear Policy Program, said in an interview.
Limits on Mongolia's Nuclear Activities?
Meanwhile, it remains uncertain whether Mongolian leaders plan to develop a capability to enrich uranium or reprocess plutonium as part of their fuel-services menu. These capabilities can be useful for either civil atomic energy needs or for the development of nuclear weapons.
"I've heard zero interest expressed by any Mongolian in any fuel-cycle activity like enrichment or reprocessing," the senior Energy official said on Wednesday.
By the same token, though, the official could not offer assurances that Mongolia has ruled out the notion of enriching uranium or reprocessing plutonium on its own soil, as its capabilities to handle nuclear materials develop.
"Unless I were with them 24 hours a day, I have never heard them say a thing about it. I've never heard anything about it," the Obama administration official said. "But I don't know what anybody has said to third parties."
A bipartisan bill pending in the House would potentially make it more difficult for the White House to gain congressional approval for any pending nuclear cooperation agreement unless the trading partner has, among other things, relinquished a right to enrich or reprocess nuclear fuel on its territory.
The Obama administration included this so-called "gold standard" provision in a 2009 nuclear trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates, but has not yet said publicly whether or how it might apply the policy to other nations.
A so-called "123" agreement -- a type of trade accord governed by the 1954 Atomic Energy Act -- would be required before Washington could assist Mongolia with nuclear technologies or know-how, even if U.S.-fabricated fuel never enters that nation for storage.
Depending on the level of U.S. assistance permitted by a trade pact, Washington could conceivably exert a great amount of leverage over how Mongolia proceeds in entering the nuclear energy market.
Mongolian-origin fuel could actually become regarded as U.S.-origin material "if it is enriched or fabricated into fuel on U.S. soil," said Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist in the Global Security program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "Another way it could occur is if the fuel is irradiated in a reactor that has used any U.S. technologies or equipment."
That designation could allow Washington a so-called "right of return" of its atomic materials or equipment if it determines that Ulaanbaatar has exceeded its rights under any future nuclear trade pact -- for example, by opting to domestically enrich or reprocess nuclear fuel contrary to the accord.
Leading up to possible negotiations on a nuclear trade agreement with Mongolia, Hibbs said a future pact could encounter some political opposition in Washington if Ulaanbaatar insists on keeping its enrichment and reprocessing options open.
"Some people in Washington have been a little apprehensive about whether Mongolia would want to enrich uranium or reprocess spent fuel, especially if the U.S. at some point agreed to support a multilateral fuel-cycle project in that country," he told GSN.
The senior Energy official would not speculate about how the Obama administration would react if Mongolia at some point refuses to renounce this type of nuclear processing, noting that the Asian nation has a long way to go before its atomic energy plans solidify.
"The U.S. holds all the cards really," Lyman said. "A '123' agreement with Mongolia should be seen as a privilege to Mongolia and not something in which they can dictate all the terms."
Calling nuclear trade pacts "one of the most potent tools the U.S. has" in helping restrict global proliferation, he added, "The administration should not lose sight of the original goal, which is to stop the spread of fuel-cycle facilities to countries that don't have them."


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Rookwood Pottery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Ohio, was probably the most famous company making art pottery in the United States in the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century. Proud that the pottery was "an artist's studio, not a factory," Rookwood Pottery is known for achieving exceptionally fine glazes and successful experimental designs. Gerald and Virginia Gordon have created a magnificent collection fully representing all aspects of Rookwood production, which they have generously given to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With the Gordons' gift, the Museum now has one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of Rookwood pottery, which is published here for the first time. Each object has been newly photographed especially for this publication and is reproduced in full color.
The story of the creation of Rookwood Pottery and its quest for artistic creativity is told by noted Rookwood scholar Nancy Owen. Author of Rookwood and the Industry of Art (2001), Owen is a lecturer in American art and gender studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. A statement from the donors discussing the formation of their collection, a short history of the Museum's Rookwood holdings, a complete checklist documenting all the objects, a selected bibliography, and an index of makers and decorators complete the presentation of this volume.


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While all are gorgeous, perhaps the most enticing part of the collaboration is that it strikes a perfect balance between sophistication (Bruno Magli) and youth (Mawi). "It was about infusing a good dose of lots of different things — the classic side, the chic side, the elegant side, and the edgy side," Bruno Magli creative director Max Kibardin explained. "Even though there's still a lot going on, it still has an overall minimal, clean look."
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In [the May 21 news story] "Fighting back? UVA mulls options for Cuccinelli climate demand" the response of UVA to the legal request by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for documents of ex-UVa climatologist Michael Mann are couched in terms of "defense of academic freedom." Rather than open up the halls of academic freedom to the light of day, UVA is presumably spending taxpayer monies to hire an international law firm to seek other options. Is there something to hide in Mann's documents? What aspect of academic freedom is being threatened?
Public funding comes with legal strings attached, and the public is entitled to know that assumed academic integrity is being upheld. The A.G. has stated he is not investigating the scientific merit of Mann's work. He need not. Others, including Canadians Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, and a 2006 U.S. Senatorial (the Wegman report) investigation have already done so.
In 2001, Mann effectively re-wrote global temperature history with his "hockey stick" graph of an unperturbed temperature record until a rapid upswing in the modern industrial age. His flat-line portion of the plot erased the warmer medieval and the cooler little ice age periods, both documented in written and pictorial history. Canadian researchers eventually demonstrated that the hockey stick graph was an artifact of the data processing algorithms used by Mann. An input of random numbers fed into the same process also produced hockey stick graphs. The Wegman commission noted that Mann considered his data his intellectual property, choose to withhold it from his peers, and thereby from peer review.
The UVA response echoes that of the cabal of celebrity climatologists involved in the 2009 "climategate" scandal. U.K. climatologist Phil Jones actively eluded Freedom of Information Requests for his data. "Hide the decline" is now linked to Michael Mann. Penn State continues to investigate Mann.
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PRATT — Memorial Day is just a few days away, and Kansas state park staff are gearing up for one of the busiest weekends of the year. State parks are great places to camp, boat, fish, swim, and just enjoy the outdoors, but if that isn't enough, you'll find a special event you won't want to miss. In addition to these events offered throughout the summer months, many parks plan special events over Memorial Day weekend. Events are diverse and may include anything from a marathon race to boating courses and equestrian rides. Many are educational, and all make visiting Kansas state parks more enjoyable.
Spring storms can impact conditions, so it's a good idea to check with parks before travelling. As of May 25, all parks were fully operational, but storms, such as the one that recently caused minor damage at Eisenhower State Park, can pop up at any time and cause damage or limit services. Park goers should be aware of this and watch the weather. But Eisenhower, like all other parks in the state, will be open for business Memorial Day weekend.
For more information on state park events, phone individual parks or click the "Event Calendar" on the State Parks page of the KDWP website, www.kdwp.state.ks.us. Telephone numbers of all state parks offices may also be found on the KDWP website. Click "State Parks" at the top of the page, then "Locations" in the left-hand column. A short conversation with local park staff will provide information on campsite availability, park conditions, current visitation rates, and answers to other questions.


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Happy Holidays, everyone! To celebrate, Little Knits is featuring 12 days of little sales every day until Christmas! To kick it off, today we have Mirasol Samp'a, Akapana, and Hapi; and Crystal Palace Taos and Merino Stripes on sale! Check out the links for colors and sale prices.
I'm loving the Hapi, a thick and thin, super soft, worsted cotton. It knits or crochets wonderfully for soft accessories or lighter-weight garments. (Sometimes, we're too warm for wool!) It drapes nicely and comes in some great colors. I love the Spring Green, and the Sky is a perfectly bright, rich blue color. See the full line here: Mirasol Hapi. Here are a few projects I'm planning with the hapi:
I've had my eye on the Schwaan pullover by Norah Gaughan for a while, and the Hapi would be perfect for it. Who says it has to be a summer pullover? Knit it out of the Beige , Forest Green, or Cinnabar and it would be a great all-season layer. If you want to stick to Norah's color pallate, the Sky Blue or Light Blue would be lovely. The pattern is in Norah Gaughan 8 available from Little Knits!
I am utterly in love with this adorable hat by Adela Illichmanova. It is available via a Ravelry Download here. I'm planning on making it with a couple different colors of blue. Maybe the navy and a light blue? The hat will take just two, and an evening. There's still time to make a few for Christmas!
Another great Christmas idea I love is these adorable Bunny Sachets. You could make at least two per skein of Hapi, stuff them with some lavender and or catnip and you have a great last minute gift! Pattern is available here on Ravelry. If you're making a pet present, be sure to use stitching and not buttons for the face!
Hapi would make wonderful children's clothing. It's super soft and comes in some good kid colors. This is one my all time favorite baby sweaters. It's simple, but has great details. it's a simple knits, but the combination of garter and stockinette keeps you knitting. It comes in sizes 3 months – 4 years, and the pattern is in Interweave Knits Winter 2011, which is available at Little Knits!
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Shanghai : Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts unveiled its third luxury hotel in Shanghai on 29 June on the Puxi side of the Huangpu River. Positioned in the very heart of Shanghai, Jing An Shangri-La, West Shanghaiis part of the city's most fashionable neighbourhood and features a glamorous design inspired by Shanghai's vibrant past, present and future.
The 508-room hotel is the centrepiece of the impressive new 450,000-square-metre Jing An Kerry Centre. In 1993, Kerry Holdings Limitedbegan purchasing parcels of land where Jing An Kerry Centre sits with the vision of developing a high-end, mixed-use complex in the very heart of Shanghai, and Jing An Shangri-La breaks new ground for the Hong Kong-based hotel group with a glamorous design.
"The hotel is very Shanghainese in that it is a balance of the new and the traditional," said Shangri-La President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Dogan. "Guests will experience Shangri-La's genuine, heart-warming hospitality, and discover classic Shangri-La design reinterpreted in a luxurious contemporary way that complements the vibrancy of the Jing An district."
Shangri-La hotels are famous for having an abundance of elegant chandeliers. Jing An Shangri-La embraces this trademark but re-envisions it to dramatic effect.
The hotel glistens with more than four million pieces of crystals. Crystals are used as architectural elements – from the thick canopy of lighted crystal rods covering the porte cochere to the crystal drapery anchoring the double-height reception area and Lobby Lounge.
Crystals are also treated as sculptures. Floating crystal lace clouds appear over the Event Centre's driveway and lead guests up five levels to the Jing An Grand Ballroom via escalators. The grandeur of the 1,743-square-metre Grand Ballroom, the largest in West Shanghai, is accentuated by a 10-metre-high ceiling dressed with glittering glass rods, crystal panels and more floating crystal clouds.
Art is an important aspect of the Shangri-La experience, and it is central to Jing An Shangri-La. Upon entering the lobby, guests are greeted by a 5.9 by 2.9-metreoil painting by Zeng Fanzhi, one of two renowned contemporary artists who were commissioned to create art for the hotel. The other is Zhou Chunya, whose series of five paintings for Jing An are inspired by Shanghai's Yu Garden.
In addition to the masterpieces, Jing An Shangri-La's art collection includes 207 pieces of work by 50 artists representing 12 countries across four continents. Fourteen of them are Chinese artists. The hotel's entire art collection includes sculptures, paintings, works on paper, photography, textile art and decorative objects–every piece specially created for Jing An Shangri-La. Each piece gives homage to Chinese culture either in the subject matter and style, or in the use of medium and material.
Even the hand-tufted silk carpets found throughout the hotel were designed to resemble paintings. Taking inspiration from traditional Chinese water colours, lotus, auspicious fish and colourful blooms are visually poetic and set off public areas and hallways with an impressive statement.
The hotel's four bars and restaurants offer a melting pot of experiences that reflect Shanghai's eclectic and cosmopolitan nature. Summer Palace's contemporary design, gives a nod to the traditional.Splashes of golden yellow,orange, green and blue hues in the furnishing, art work and accessories are modern motifs of the peacock, a common inspiration in Chinese ink paintings.
The Chinese restaurant's three chambers are inviting and creatively straddle opulence and refinement, while offering more areas for dining, as well as elegant settings suited to elaborate gourmet feasts.
In The 1515 West, Chophouse & Bar, an appetite for premium beef, American-sized desserts and signature drinks is boosted by artefacts from the old Shanghai movies era and a classic New York steakhouse interior décor.
The two-level Café LIANG & mezzanine greets guests with a cheery palette of pistachio, orange and brown alongside its semi-buffet spread on the first level. A stylish spiral staircase connects the all-day dining café to the mezzanine level serving modern Japanese-inspired cuisine. While the chef's skilful hands are at work, diners can soak in the view of pathways, gardens and water features in the 3,000-square-metre piazza.
Across the complex's piazza, the attention-catching two-level restaurant with a roof-top wine bar stands in full view from Café LIANG. The soon-to-open modern Mediterranean restaurant with glass-roof building clad in bamboois designed by the world-famous architect Shigeru Ban. The outlet will offer food and wine experience in an informal and engaging environment.
Guestrooms occupy the top 29 floors of the 60-storey tower and provide stunning views. Pops of colour accent the silvery design scheme which is warmed by rosewood panelling.A sense of arrival continues throughtothe rooms' bathrooms, personal spaces of luxurywhere heated marble floors, satin glass, bevelled mirrors, separate bathtubs and stand-alone showers with mosaic tiles fashioned intoart seamlessly combine.
Guests staying in Grand Premier Rooms and suites will have access to the largest Horizon Club Lounge in Shangri-La's collection. Taking up the entire 55th floor, the exclusive Lounge offers 360-degree panoramic views of Shanghai and valuable privileges such as complimentary breakfast, all-day refreshments and evening cocktails, and free use of the lounge's meeting room for two hours per day. Providing guests an even more personalised level of service, Horizon Club privileges include dedicated Club Concierge service, tea or coffee delivered to the guestroom with a wake-up call, suit pressing and late check-out until 4 p.m. Free Wi-Fi is provided to all guests as well as Horizon Club guests.
Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts currently owns and/or manages 81hotels under the Shangri-La brand with a room inventory of over 34,000. Shangri-La hotels are five-star deluxe properties featuring extensive luxury facilities and services. Shangri-La hotels are located in Australia, Canada, mainland China, Fiji, France, Hong Kong, India,Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Singapore, Sultanate of Oman, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkeyand the United Arab Emirates. The group has a substantial development pipeline with upcoming projects in mainland China, India, Mongolia, Philippines, Qatar, Sri Lankaand the United Kingdom.For more information and reservations, please contact a travel professional or access the website at www.shangri-la.com.
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Frederick H. Waddell
Class A Director, Term: 2009-2011; 2012-2014
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Northern Trust Corporation
The Northern Trust Company
Chicago, Illinois
Frederick H. Waddell is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Northern Trust, one of the world's leading asset management, asset servicing, fund administration, fiduciary and banking services firms. Serving successful individuals, families and institutions worldwide, the Chicago-based, 122-year-old financial institution had $4.2 trillion in assets under custody and $644.2 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2011.
Since joining Northern Trust in 1975, Waddell has held leadership positions in Commercial Banking, Strategic Planning and Personal Financial Services. In March 2003, he became head of the Corporate & Institutional Services business unit and, in February 2006, was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Northern Trust. Mr. Waddell was appointed Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2008, and named Chairman in November 2009.
Waddell is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, The Economic Club of Chicago, the Financial Services Roundtable, The Chicago Club, Chicago Urban League and the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago. He is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the Civic Committee of the Chicago Commonwealth Club. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He also serves on the Trustees Committee of the Chicago Community Trust. Mr. Waddell serves as Vice Chairman of the Corporate Fund Board of the John F. Kennedy Center and is an Executive Advisor to the Metropolitan Planning Council.
Waddell received a bachelor's degree in government from Dartmouth College and a master's degree in business administration from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University.