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About Paul Tagliabue
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Paul Tagliabue
Former Commissioner (CEO), National Football League |
Paul Tagliabue engages in a range of endeavors, including in business advisory services, the practice of law and higher education. He previously served as the Commissioner (CEO) of the National Football League from 1989 until September 1, 2006.
Tagliabue is the Chair of Georgetown University’s Board of Directors and chairs the board of the Graduate Institute of International Commerce of the State University of New York (SUNY) in New York City. He also serves on the boards of other educational and non-profit organizations.
Tagliabue is senior of counsel in the law firm Covington & Burling LLP in its Washington, DC, and New York offices, and advises clients on strategic matters in the communications and media, technology, and international sectors.
Tagliabue served with distinction as NFL Commissioner and presided over an extended period of labor peace, league expansion and revenue growth in professional football. His leadership of the NFL has been featured in national and international journals, including The Economist, Fortune, Business Week, Time and the China Daily.
He has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, and has engaged in business, higher education and public policy discussions in Asia (including in China, India, Japan, Singapore) and Europe with representatives of business, government and academia.
Before becoming the NFL’s CEO, Tagliabue represented the league and other clients for two decades at Covington & Burling. He earlier served in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense as a policy analyst, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also currently serves on Panasonic’s Global Advisory Group.
Born in 1940, Tagliabue graduated in 1962 with honors from Georgetown College, where he was the Senior Class President and Captain of the basketball team. He received his law degree in 1965 with honors at New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar, and he has since received honorary degrees from several universities.
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