Nelson Cunningham is Managing Partner of McLarty Associates, the international strategic advisory firm he co-founded with former Clinton Chief of Staff Thomas F. Mack McLarty III. Cunningham was Special Advisor to President Clinton for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He previously served as a lawyer at the White House and on the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman Joseph R. Biden, and before that was a federal prosecutor in New York under Rudolph Giuliani specializing in international financial prosecutions. He serves on the boards of the Institute of the Americas, the Business Council for International Understanding and the American Security Project, and is a member of the Yale University President's Council on International Activities, the Council of Americas, and the Council on Foreign Relations.