Carla A. Hills is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hills & Company, International Consultants, which advises companies on global trade and investment issues. Ambassador Hills served as U.S. Trade Representative (1989-93), in the first Bush Administration, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice in the Ford Administration.
She currently serves on the International Boards of J.P. Morgan Chase, Rolls Royce, and the Coca-Cola Company. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Inter-American Dialogue, Chair of the National Committee on US-China Relations; member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for International Economics and of the Trilateral Commission, and Co-Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Ambassador Hills received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University and her law degree from Yale University. She is the recipient of a number of honorary degrees. In 2000 she was awarded the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor given by the Mexican government to a non-citizen.
