Marina von Neumann Whitman

From 1979 until 1992, she was an officer of the General Motors Corporation, first as Vice President and Chief Economist and late as Vice President and Group Executive for Public Affairs.  Prior to her appointment at GM, she was a member of the faculty in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She served as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 1972-73, while on leave from the University. A former director of Alcoa, Browning-Ferris Industries, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Procter & Gamble, and Unocal, she serves or has served on numerous national boards and committees dealing with economic and governmental issues, as well as on the Boards of Harvard and Princeton Universities. She is the author of New World, New Rules: The Changing Role of the American Corporation (1999) and of a memoir: The Martian's Daughter (2012).