Marina by Neumann Whitman

Marina von Neumann Whitman (born March 6, 1935 ) is an American economist and former manager in the automotive industry .

Career

The daughter of the Hungarian-born mathematician John von Neumann , who emigrated to the United States, studied at Radcliffe College until 1956 , from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. She then continued her studies at Columbia University , where she received her master's degree in 1959 and a Ph.D. three years later. -Title graduated . In 1962 she joined the University of Pittsburgh , where she met her future husband, the philosophy professor Robert Freeman Whitman . In 1972 she was admitted to the Council of Economic Advisers under President Richard Nixon . She left the board a year after she was appointed full professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Between 1977 and 1987 she was a director at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank .

In 1979 von Neumann Whitman left academic operations and moved to General Motors' board of directors as chief economist . Later, as deputy chairman of the board, she headed the public affairs department, which, in addition to economic issues, included responsibility for environmental activities, relations with state institutions and public relations . She left the company in 1992 and returned to science when she accepted a professorship at the University of Michigan . At the same time she took on supervisory board mandates at Chemical Bank , where she remained active after the takeover of Chase Manhattan Bank in 1996 as well as after the merger with JP Morgan & Co to form JPMorgan Chase 2000, and at Alcoa . She resigned this in 2002 for reasons of age. Before that, she had been a member of Procter & Gamble's supervisory board since 1976 , and left in 2003.

Neumann Whitmans' research and teaching activities focus on issues relating to international trade and cross-border investments, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues, and relationships between companies and stakeholders . In 1988 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

• Official homepage of the Gerald R. Ford School of the University of Michigan