Biography of Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr.

Mr. Loeb is currently Chairman of John L. Loeb, Jr. Associates, Inc., Investment Counselors.  He serves as Chairman of both the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, and the John L. Loeb, Jr. Foundation.  He is a Trustee of the Langeloth Foundation and the American-Scandinavian Foundation.

He was a Trustee of the Educational Testing Service (SAT) from 1986-1993 and a Trustee of the American University from 1985-1994.  He has served on seven Harvard visiting committees including the Board of Overseers of Harvard College to visit the John F. Kennedy School of Government (1980-1986), and the Board of Overseers of the Harvard College Committee to visit the Harvard Business School (1968-1979)

Ambassador Loeb earned his B.A. cum laude in 1952 from Harvard College where he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon.  In 1954, he received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.  He was a senior partner in Loeb, Rhoades & Co. from 1956-1976, and Chairman of the Board of Holly Sugar from 1969-1971.  He has served as a Director of Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, Rio Grande Industries and John Morrell & Co., among other corporations.  He currently owns the Russian Riverbend Vineyards Ltd., which produces Sonoma-Loeb wines.