Draft:Manning G. Warren III

Manning Warren is an American academic and researcher specialising in corporate and securities law.

Career
In 1973 Warren received his Juris Doctor, with honors, from the National Law Center at George Washington University. He briefly served as a clerk to U.S. District Judge Seybourn Harris Lynne, former Chief Judge of the Northern District of Alabama before entering private practice in 1974.

From 1983 to 1990, Warren held academic positions at Queen Mary University of London, George Washington University, Emory University, the University of Arizona, and the University of Alabama. He has been the Harold Edward Harter Professor of Law at the University of Louisville since 1990.

Volunteering
Throughout his career, Warren has been a volunteer leader in the International Red Cross movement. He was founder and director of Friendship Guatemala, an American Red Cross volunteer medical training program in Guatemala. He served on the Group of Experts on Human Rights, Commission on the Red Cross and Peace, Geneva, Switzerland, and as Delegate to the XXVth (Geneva) and XXVIth (Budapest) International Conferences of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. He also served on the American Red Cross Board of Governors International Services Committee, as Senior International Advisor to the American Red Cross, and as Chair of the American Red Cross Committee on Magen David Adom. He has acted as the American Red Cross' Special Counsel for International Affairs in connection with the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India and the Ethiopia-Sudan famine in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Warren has served as President of the Louisville Orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky. Under his leadership, the Louisville Orchestra avoided bankruptcy through his renegotiation of the orchestra's union contract in coordination with the American Federation of Musicians.