Trump appoints Nooyi to strategic, policy forum

“My administration is going to work together with the private sector to improve the business climate and make it attractive for firms to create new jobs across the United States from Silicon Valley to the heartland.” The forum is headed by Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO of the investment company Blackstone and includes Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, and CEOs Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, Uber’s Travis Kalanick; Jamie Dimon of Chase and Mary Barra of General Motors. 

Trump’s transition team said that forum members will give Trump their views on government policy, job-creation and productivity ‘in a frank, non-bureaucratic and non-partisan manner’. Nooyi heads a multinational company with an annual revenue of $63 billion that employs 110,000 people. A graduate of Madras Christian College in Chennai, Indra Nooyi has management degrees from the Indian Institute of Management in Kolkata and Yale University. 

Earlier Trump had appointed Shalabh Kumar, the chair of the Republican Hindu Coalition, to the transition finance and the inauguration teams. The finance team members review prospects for administration positions and makes recommendations to Trump. The inauguration team organises the festivities for Trump’s swearing in as president on January 20.