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Ford M. Fraker In addition to playing on Andover’s legendary 1967 hockey team, Ford Fraker also lettered in football, baseball, and soccer, earning nine varsity letters in total. As a senior, he was captain of the varsity baseball team and a member of All-Prep Hockey. Fraker was awarded the Schubert Key, Yale Bowl, and Aurelian Honor Society Prize. At Harvard, Fraker played one year of freshman hockey and three years of JV hockey, graduating cum laude in 1971 with a BA degree. Over the next 19 years, he held positions in banking and finance with various organizations, 6
all with connections to the Middle East. In 1991, he founded Fraker & Co., which provided Middle East consultancy services to U.S. and U.K. firms. In 1997, he cofounded Trinity Group Limited, for which he served as board chair for a decade. In 2007, Fraker was appointed U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by President George W. Bush ’64, a position he held until 2009. The Council of American Ambassadors credits Fraker’s leadership with promoting a new “partnership in the areas of counterterrorist financing, nuclear non-proliferation and
the development of peaceful nuclear energy, the protection of Saudi Arabia’s critical infrastructure, and the exchange of science and technology.” Fraker’s current positions include senior advisor for the Middle East for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, president of the Middle East Policy Council in Washington, D.C., and vice chairman of the board of trustees of International College in Beirut. Ambassador Fraker and his wife, Linda, have three children, Antonia, Ford, and Charles, and reside in Cohasset and Nantucket, Mass.