ADRIENNE ARSHT is a business leader and philanthropist. In 2008, her contribution secured Miami’s Performing Arts Center’s financial footing, later renamed the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. In 2012, Adrienne’s contribution to Lincoln Center was recognized with the dedication of the Adrienne Arsht Stage in Alice Tully Hall. At the Atlantic Council, in 2013 she founded the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. In 2016, Adrienne created the Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience. Recently, Adrienne established the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative within the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Arsht donated to the Smithsonian Institution to launch the Adrienne Arsht Community-Based Resilience Solutions Initiative, a multiyear research and public education program focused on tropical and global resilience. She funded The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first ever paid internship program. Arsht is Executive Vice Chairman of the Atlantic Council, a former Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Honorary Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Trustee Emerita of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is a member of National Advisory Board of the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute for American Democracy and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Arsht is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Villanova Law School and a member of the Delaware Bar. She is the daughter of the Honorable Roxana Cannon Arsht, the first female judge in the State of Delaware, and S. Samuel Arsht, a prominent Wilmington attorney.