Indian origin, PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi has joined American President-elect Donald Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum, that will assist the President-elect in implementing his economic agenda. Indra Nooyi, 61, is the only Indian-American executive in the 19-member President’s Strategic and Policy Forum.
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“America has the most innovative and vibrant companies in the world, and the pioneering CEOs joining this Forum today are at the top of their fields,” Mr Trump said.
“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,” he said.
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The 19-member President’s Strategic and Policy Forum is headed by Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO of the investment company Blackstone and includes Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, and the CEOs Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, Uber’s Travis Kalanick; Jamie Dimon of Chase and Mary Barra of General Motors.
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Earlier, Trump has nominated the Indian-American Seema Verma, CEO and founder of SVC Inc ., a U.S.-based health policy consulting company to serve as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “She has decades of experience advising on Medicare and Medicaid policy and helping states navigate our complicated systems,” Trump had said.
In November, Mr. Trump had picked South Carolina Governor. Nikki Haley, who is Indian in origin to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Trump had appointed Shalabh Kumar, the chair of the Republican Hindu Coalition, also in to the transition finance and the inauguration teams.
By Premji
