YORBA LINDA, Calif., May 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Richard Nixon Foundation is gratified to make known a choosing of a 29th Secretary of Commerce Barbara Hackman Franklin to a house of directors, fasten a register of leaders in government, blurb operation as good as open affairs committed to preserving a bequest as good as prophesy of America’s 37th President. Secretary Franklin advises American companies you do blurb operation in general markets, particularly China, as good as is an consultant upon corporate governance, auditing as good as monetary stating practices. “Secretary Franklin will be a good item to a Foundation house of directors,” pronounced President Nixon’s daughters Tricia Nixon Cox as good as Julie Nixon Eisenhower. “She not usually brings pointy genius as good as considerable certification in blurb operation as good as supervision service, though a pioneering suggestion demonstrated by her good work with a father to enhance opportunities for women in government.” Secretary Franklin, right away President of a in isolation general consulting organisation Barbara Franklin Enterprises, was a single of a initial women to connoisseur from a Harvard Business School. She began her open use career in a Nixon White House where she combined as good as led a 37th President’s initiatives to enhance a purpose as good as appearance of women in government. These efforts resulted in a tripling of appointments to high-level supervision positions together with cupboard posts as good as sovereign judgeships, a enrichment of some-more than a single thousand women to middle-level positions, as good as a event for women in a troops to be promoted to a arrange of Colonel as good as stick upon a ranks of Admirals as good as Generals for a initial time in history. After withdrawal a White House, Secretary Franklin served in a accumulation of academic, supervision as good as corporate positions. She served as a single of a strange Commissioners as good as initial Vice Chair of a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission by appointment of President Nixon, as Senior Fellow during a Wharton School of Business during a University of Pennsylvania, as good as served 4 conditions upon a President’s Advisory Council upon Trade Policy as good as Negotiations by appointment of Presidents Ronald Reagan as good as George H.W. Bush. She has served upon a play of directors of fourteen open companies as good as now serves upon a play of AETNA Inc. as good as The Dow Chemical Company. She is additionally keeper of 3 supports in a American Family of mutual funds, as good as serves upon a International Advisory Board of Lafarge of Paris, France. Secretary Franklin is Chairman of a National Association of Corporate Directors, Chairman emerita of a Economic Club of New York, as good as a executive of a US-China Business Council, a National Committee upon US-China Relations, a Atlantic Council, a Committee for Economic Development, as good as a National Symphony Orchestra. She is additionally a part of of a Advisory Council of a Kissinger Institute upon China as good as a U.S., a Council upon Foreign Relations, a Foreign Policy Association, a Japan Society, a International Women’s Forum as good as part of emeritus of a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Advisory Council. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush allocated Franklin to lead a U.S. Department of Commerce, where she grown multiform general giveaway marketplace initiatives. Following in a footsteps of America’s 37th President, she embarked upon an ancestral goal to China that normalized blurb family with Beijing. Secretary Franklin is tied together to Wallace Barnes, late authority as good as CEO of Barnes Group, Inc. They reside in Washington, D.C. as good as Bristol, Connecticut. The Richard Nixon Foundation is a not-for-profit classification located upon a campus of a Richard Nixon Presidential Library, 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., Yorba Linda, CA 92886. For some-more report about events or exhibits, greatfully call (714) 993-5075 or revisit a Foundation online during www.nixonfoundation.org . SOURCE Richard Nixon Foundation Back to tip RELATED LINKS http://www.nixonfoundation.org
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Hon. Barbara Hackman Franklin Elected to Richard Nixon Foundation Board – PR Newswire (press release)
