Economics
Obama Names Chenault, Parsons to Jobs, Competitiveness Panel
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President Barack Obama named representatives from business and labor to his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, including Kenneth Chenault, chief executive officer of American Express Co., Richard D. Parsons, chairman of CitiGroup Inc., and Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO.
Among others Obama named to the panel today were Ellen Kullman, CEO of DuPont Co, John Doerr, a senior partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm; Roger Ferguson, CEO of TIAA-CREF and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Laura D’Andrea Tyson, a professor of economics at University of California-Berkley and former President Bill Clinton’s economic adviser.