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Franklin, Barbara H.
Served as Staff Assistant to the U.S. President (1971-73).
Served as a Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (1973-79).
Served on the U.S. Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations under Presidents Reagan and Bush (1982-86 and 1989-92).
Served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1992-93).
As of 2005 was a member of the board of directors of the biotechnology companies MedImmune and GenVec and of Dow Chemical.
Was the founder, president and CEO of Franklin Associates (1984-92) and since 1995 the president and CEO of the international consulting and investment firm Barbara Franklin Enterprises.
Has served as an Alternate Representative to the 44th United Nations General Assembly (1989-90)and been an assistant vice president of Citibank (1969-71), a senior fellow and director of the government and business program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1979-88), a director of the NASDAQ Stock Market, a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, a member of the Advisory Council of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a member of the board of directors of AICPA (1977-86), chairman of the Economic Club of New York, vice chair of the US-China Business Council, a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Corporate Directors, of Aetna Inc, and of Milacron Inc, and chairman of the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center Advisory Council. (1,2,3)
Endnotes:
(1) Heritage Foundation biography at http://www.heritage.org/About/Staff/BarbaraFranklin.cfm , accessed May 5, 2005.
(2])Dow Chemical biography at http://www.dow.com/about/aboutdow/lead/franklin.htm , accessed May 5, 2005.
(3) MedImmune biography at http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=83037&p=irol-govBio&ID=74869 , accessed May 5, 2005.
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