Barry A Sanders

Recently retired from the partnership at the law firm of Latham & Watkins after practicing with the firm for over 35 years. He led the Latham & Watkins’ International Practice Group for many years. In addition, he was founding president of the Los Angeles Center for International Commercial Arbitration and founding chair of the International Law Section of the California State Bar Association. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. As a supporter of amateur sports in Southern California, he represented the Los Angeles Sports Council, the America’s Cup Organizing Committee, the LA84 Foundation, the San Diego (“ARCO”) Olympic Training Center, the Special Olympics and the Los Angeles Olympics Sports Festival. He headed the legal team for the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee in its bribery scandal. He is now a Commissioner of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and a Director of the Los Angeles Sports Council and of the Los Angeles Sports Council Foundation. In early 1992, he served as executive editor and general counsel to the California Council on Competitiveness. From 1979 to 1984, he served as primary outside counsel to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. After the riots in Los Angeles in 1992, he was Co-Chair of Rebuild LA, the public- private organization established to deal with the problems of LA’s inner city. He served in that capacity until returning to Latham & Watkins on January 1, 1994. While Co-Chair of RLA, he was Chairman of the Board of the RLA Community Lending Corporation. He served as a Board member and as “Honorary Chair” of that inner city loan fund corporation from 1993 to 2000. He has been Chairman of the Board and President of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Chairman of the Los Angeles Public Library Foundation. He is presently on the Boards of Directors of the Los Angeles Opera and the Geffen Playhouse and on the Board of Visitors of the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. He has also served on the Boards of Directors of the Los Angeles Performing Arts Center (formerly “The Music Center”), the Music Center Foundation, and The Walt Disney Concert Hall Corporation, the Joffrey Ballet, the Aman Dance Company, the Otis Art Institute, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Sanders was born in Philadelphia and earned degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School. He and his wife Nancy have three grown sons, Peter, Matt and Teddy.