Strategic and Policy Forum

The Strategic and Policy Forum was a group of advisors launched by US President Donald Trump . The objective was to show the government, from the perspective of business leaders, how jobs can be created and growth for the US economy improved.

The first joint meeting took place in February 2017. The members were respected managers, mostly CEOs (chairmen of the board of directors) of large companies.

After several resignations in connection with Trump's reaction to the violent riots in Charlottesville, Trump announced on August 16 that this advisory group and the similar American Manufacturing Council would be dissolved : “Instead of putting pressure on the businessmen in the Manufacturing Council and the Strategy & Policy Forum, quit me both I thank all of you!"

Members until August 16, 2017

• Paul S. Atkins , CEO, Patomak Global Partners
• Mary Barra , CEO, General Motors
• Toby Cosgrove , CEO, Cleveland Clinic
• Larry Fink , CEO, BlackRock
• Rich Lesser , CEO, Boston Consulting Group
• Doug McMillon , CEO, Walmart Stores
• James McNerney , Boeing CEO
• Indra Nooyi , CEO, PepsiCo
• Adebayo Ogunlesi , Chairman, Global Infrastructure Partners
• Virginia Rometty , CEO, IBM
• Kevin Warsh , Hoover Institution
• Mark Weinberger , CEO, Ernst & Young
• Jack Welch , CEO, General Electric
• Daniel Yergin , Vice President, IHS Market and Pulitzer Prize Winner

Members who prematurely terminated their work in the Strategic and Policy Forum

• Travis Kalanick , CEO, Uber

On February 2, 2017, he announced his resignation from this position. Before that, there had been calls on the Internet to boycott the driving service because of its proximity to Trump.

• Elon Musk , CEO, Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX

The panel left Musk in response to Donald Trump's announcement that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement .

In response to Donald Trump's comments on the far-right demonstrations in Charlottesville in August 2017 , several members left the panel:

• Kenneth Frazier , CEO, Merck & Co.
• Bob Iger , CEO, The Walt Disney Company
• Brian Krzanich , CEO, Intel
• Kevin Plank , CEO, Under Armor
• Stephen Schwarzman , CEO, Blackstone Group
• Jamie Dimon , CEO, JPMorgan Chase

Web links

• nytimes.com: The Business Leaders on (and Off) Trump Councils
• nbcnews.com: Dissolves Business Advisory Councils as CEOs Quit
• cnbc.com: Council Statement to End Collaboration (Video)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the establishment of the forum by the transition team on greatagain.gov
2. ↑ cnn.com: White House business panels collapse as CEOs flee Trump
3. ↑ faz.net: Because of Charlottesville statements, Trump is completely without a CEO
4. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: Trump names himself top climate protector
5. ↑ Musk's Twitter statement cited in the Huffington Post