Uber Names Former EU Vice President Kroes to New Advisory Board
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Uber Technologies Inc. announced an eight-member public policy advisory board Wednesday to help win over governments across the world.
The board includes Ray LaHood, a former Republican lawmaker and President Barack Obama’s first Secretary of Transportation, and Melody Barnes, a former director of the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama White House. The other six members of the board reflect Uber’s international reach. They include Roberto Danino, the former prime minister of Peru, Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, a Saudi Arabian princess and entrepreneur and Neelie Kroes, Netherlands special envoy for startups and a former European Commission vice president.