Barbara Franklin

Barbara Hackman Franklin (birth name: Hackman ) ( born March 19, 1940 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American politician ( Republican) and manager.

Biography

After school she studied at the Pennsylvania State University and graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) from. Subsequently, she completed postgraduate studies in business administration at Harvard Business School and finished this in 1964 as one of the first women with a Master of Business Administration (MBA).

In 1969 she was an assistant to a Vice President of Citibank; then it was 1971-1973 Staff Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the White House under President Richard Nixon, Harry Robbins Haldeman. Following it belonged until 1979 to the Commission for Consumer and Product Safety ( Consumer Product Safety Commission ) to.

In 1979 she moved to the private sector and was initially to 1992 Member of the Board of Aetna. At the same time it was from 1979 to 1988 as a researcher ( Senior Fellow ) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania operates. In 1980 she founded her own company Barbara Franklin Enterprises, whose President and Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) it is since then. In addition, it was 1980-1992 Member of the Board of Dow Chemical and Westinghouse Electric, 1984-1992 by Automatic Data Processing, 1985-1992 by Black & Decker, 1988-1992 by Nordstrom and 1989-1992 by Armstrong. Between 1982 and 1984, and 1989 and 1992 she was also a member of the Advisory Board Präsidiellen trade policy and negotiations ( President's Advisory Council for Trade Policy and Negotiations ).

On 27 February 1992 she was appointed as the successor of Robert Mosbacher of U.S. President George Bush's Trade Minister ( Secretary of Commerce ) in his cabinet, where she was employed until the end of Bush's term of office on 20 January 1993.

After they retired from the government's policy in 1993, she is back in the private sector operates, and since the back board member of Aetna, Dow Chemical, and at the same time until 1999 by AMP, Inc.. At the same time (1995 to 2002) was a board member of Guest Services, Inc., JA Jones (1995 to 1998), MedImmune (1995 to 2007), Milacron (1996 to 2005), NASDAQ (1996 to 1997), Watson Wyatt (2000 to 2002), Aviron (2001 to 2002), and GenVec ( 2002 to 2007 ).