PROFILE: US AMBASSADOR TO BELGIUM NOMINEE

Former Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner and CEO Jamie McCourt was nominated on 22 June, 2017  by President Trump as United States Ambassador to Belgium. She will need to be confirmed by the Senate. In  2016, McCourt served as Presidential Trustee and California State Co-Chair for Trump victory. She then was on the Finance Transition Committee for then President Elect Donald Trump. She also personally contributed with some 400,000 USD for Trump’s election campaign fund. Her former husband Frank McCourt is now owner of the French Marseille Olympics football team.

Jamie D. McCourt (born December 5, 1953) is a businesswoman and investor. She is the founder and CEO of Jamie Enterprises, and the former Co-Owner and executive of the Los Angeles Dodgers. She became the highest-ranking woman in Major League Baseball, appointed first as Vice Chairman of the Dodgers in 2004, then President in 2005, and finally CEO in 2009. She earned a degree in French at Georgetown University (1975), a law degree at the University of Maryland School of Law (1978) and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She also holds a diploma from La Sorbonne at the University of Paris.

For fifteen years she was a practicing attorney, engaged in international and securities law in New York as well as in corporate, real estate, and family law in Boston. She then spent ten years as Vice President and General Counsel of the McCourt Co., the family real estate development firm in Boston. She relocated from Boston to Los Angeles in 2004 to purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers and also joined the Dodgers' front-office organization as an executive after the team was acquired. In September 2008, the McCourts purchased the Los Angeles Marathon. She was a visiting professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her course, “The Pursuit of Leadership: A Female Perspective,” was designed for women and, according to the UCLA Newsroom, was considered one of the most popular courses in the Anderson School curriculum. In 2009, McCourt launched Jamie Enterprises. She has invested in high-value real estate, biotech and tech start ups. Investments include ZipCar, Kite Pharma and Heal. In 2013, she bought a 22 acre vineyard estate in Napa Valley, California Rutherford region for $11.25 million with the intention of both living there part-time and continuing to produce the property's wine. As of 2016, she planned to produce a cabernet sauvignon for release in 2017. In 2015, she was a keynote speaker at the Sloan Women in Management conference at MIT where she shared her personal story and called for women to seek a secure financial future. McCourt also talked at institutions such as Harvard and Columbia University encouraging women to be financially self-sufficient and in control of their finances. In 2016, McCourt served as Presidential Trustee and California State Co-Chair for Trump Victory. She then was on the Transition Finance Committee for then President-Elect Donald Trump

McCourt has said she considers education the great equalizer and has pursued a variety of educational endeavors including membership on the Board of Advisors at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the North American Executive Board at the MIT Sloan Schhol of Management. She also served as Chairman of Georgetown University’s Third Century Campaign, which raised more than one billion dollars.