About

One of four continental general counsel serving Marriott outside the US, Brenda Durham is lead counsel for the company’s hotels and resorts throughout the Caribbean and Latin America and legal group leader for international lodging operations. In this latter role she oversees Marriott’s continental general counsel in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa. She has been particularly active in promoting Marriott’s diversity and inclusion programme, helping to build on the strengths of the first such a programme to be established by a hospitality company. She is recognised, says one nominator, as ‘one of the truly outstanding Latin America-facing general counsel working in the US today’, who brings ‘a mature, executive-level judgement to bear on all matters’. She is, says another: ‘a general counsel who could easily make the transition into other parts of the c-suite and add the same level of insight and value’.