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Pharma CEOs who quit White House council in 2017 join ‘Great American Economic Revival’ initiative
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April 15, 2020 9:57 PM UTC
Updated on Apr 16, 2020 at 12:04 AM UTC
Nine pharma CEOs are among a list of over 200 executives, economists and scholars that have been named as members of White House “Great American Economic Revival” industry groups.
The membership list released by the White House includes two pharma CEOs -- Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE:MRK) Chairman and CEO Kenneth Frazier and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) CEO Alex Gorsky -- who quit a White House Manufacturing Advisory Council in 2017 in protest over President Donald Trump’s failure to condemn white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va. (see “Merck CEO Quits Trump Manufacturing Council” and “Gorsky Reverses Course”). ...