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Deval Patrick is a business and civil rights lawyer, a business executive, investor and entrepreneur, and the former two-term governor of Massachusetts. He currently serves as Professor of Practice and Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also is Senior Advisor to Bain Capital and the Bain Capital Double Impact Fund, the impact investment fund he founded in 2015 and led until 2019. He also serves on various business and nonprofit boards and commissions and was co-chair from 2020 to 2022 of American Bridge 21st Century Foundation, a progressive political action committee. He graduated cum laude with a BA degree from Harvard College and earned his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. He is the recipient of 21 honorary degrees, and the author of two books. Deval and his wife Diane, also a lawyer by training, have two adult daughters and two grandchildren. Diane and Deval reside in Boston and in the Berkshires in MA. He is a member of the 1999 class of Henry Crown Fellows and the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.
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