Adrienne Arsht

Executive Vice Chair @ Atlantic Council; Chairman Emerita, TotalBank

Ms. Adrienne Arsht is a business leader and philanthropist. A community-minded power broker, she has taken a leading role promoting artistic, business and civic growth in the three cities she calls home: Washington, D.C., Miami and New York. She is Founding Chairman of the Adrienne Arsht Center Foundation in Miami, Florida. In 2008, her $30 million contribution to Miami’s Performing Arts Center transformed the city. The Center was renamed in her honor, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Her support of the transformation of Lincoln Center’s facilities and public spaces was recognized with the dedication of the Adrienne Arsht Stage in Alice Tully Hall in 2012. In Washington, she created the Adrienne Arsht Latin American Center at The Atlantic Council in 2013 to focus on the role of South America in the trans-Atlantic world. Ms. Arsht is a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2009, she established the Adrienne Arsht Theater Fund at the Kennedy Center to support a wide variety of theater productions. Ms. Arsht is a Vice Chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Executive Vice Chairman of the Atlantic Council. She is on the Trustees Council of The National Gallery of Art, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is President of the Vice President’s Residence Foundation.