Arnold Donald

Carnival Corporation & PLC, Retired Vice Chair & CEO

Arnold Donald is former Vice-Chair of Carnival Corporation & PLC, the world’s largest cruise company. Their nine world leading cruise brands -- Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America, Princess, Seabourn, AIDA, Costa, Cunard, P&O UK, and P&O Australia -- are based throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Carnival Corporation & PLC is included in both the S&P500 and the FTSE 100 indices and trades on both the New York and London Stock Exchanges. Mr. Donald was President & CEO of Carnival Corporation from July 2013 to July 2022 and served on the board for 13 years before that. He also serves on the boards of Bank of America Corporation, SalesForce, MP Materials, and Foster Farms. In April 2021 Mr. Donald was appointed Chair of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), the preeminent organization representing the global travel and tourism industry and advocating for the positive economic impact of travel and tourism. Mr. Donald spent more than twenty years at Monsanto Company as Corporate Senior Vice-President, and President of the Consumer and Nutrition sector and President of the Agricultural sector. After leaving Monsanto, Mr. Donald was Chairman of Merisant Company whose products included the leading global sweetener brands Equal and Canderel. Prior to Carnival, Mr. Donald was President and CEO of the Executive Leadership Council, a professional network and leadership forum for African-American executives of Fortune 500 companies, and the President and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. A native of New Orleans, Mr. Donald received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College, a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Washington University in St Louis, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Mr. Donald currently serves on a number of not-for-profit boards including Tulane University in New Orleans, Carleton College in Northfield, and Washington University in St. Louis, and has served on The Greater New Orleans Foundation, St. Louis-based BJC Healthcare, and Crown Holdings Inc., among others.