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Meg Whitman
Sign in to saveAlso known as Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman, Meg Cushing Whitman, Margaret Whitman, Margaret Cushing Whitman
American business executive
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- The power of many
- The Power of Many
- The Power of Many
- The power of many
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 16
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
- Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy
· 2019 · cited 5,317x
- Axicabtagene Ciloleucel CAR T-Cell Therapy in Refractory Large B-Cell Lymphoma
· 2017 · cited 5,299x
- Precise Measurement of the G+C Content of Deoxyribonucleic Acid by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
· 1989 · cited 3,940x
- Prokaryotes: The unseen majority
· 1998 · cited 3,620x
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Quotes
- “Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.”
- “A monkey could drive this train.”
- “Kenya is well-positioned to be an African leader in information technology, telecommunications, and mobile banking and is open to partnering with the United States.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- President
- Joe Biden
- Preceded by
- Kyle McCarter
- Succeeded by
- Marc Dillard, Chargé d'affaires
- Born
- Margaret Cushing Whitman , ( 1956-08-04 ) August 4, 1956 (age 69) , Huntington, New York , U.S.
- Party
- Republican (formerly), Democratic
- Spouse
- Griffith R. Harsh ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
- Education
- Princeton University ( AB ), Harvard University ( MBA )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Meg Whitman, U.S. Ambassador.jpg
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- Commons category
- Meg Whitman
- date of birth
- 1956-08-04
- birth name
- Margaret Cushing Whitman
- social media followers
- 211126
- affiliation string
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- net worth
- 4100000000
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Article
Margaret Cushing Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive, diplomat and politician. She served as the United States ambassador to Kenya from July 2022 to November 2024 under President Joe Biden.
Until 2025, when she stated she was a registered Democrat, Whitman was a member of the Republican Party. She ran for governor of California in the 2010 California gubernatorial election and lost to former California Governor Jerry Brown, 54% to 41%. The fifth-wealthiest woman in California with a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010, she spent, at the time, more of her own money on a single election than any other political candidate in American history. The $144 million of her own fortune she used for the race (the campaign spent $178.5 million in total, including money from donors) was surpassed only by Michael Bloomberg in the 2020 presidential election. Whitman was a senior presidential campaign official for Republican Mitt Romney in both 2008 and 2012, although she supported Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in the 2016 presidential election and the 2020 presidential election, respectively.