New York CNN —Former Merck CEO Ken Frazier and KKR co-CEO Joseph Bae are joining Harvard University’s top board as the Ivy League school seeks to turn the page on a tumultuous period.
Harvard announced the changes on Sunday evening, saying Frazier will start Wednesday to fill the open seat on the Harvard Corporation, the powerful yet secretive board under fire its handling of the recent controversies.
Frazier, who graduated Harvard Law School in 1978, served as CEO of Merck and sat on the board of ExxonMobil, is widely respected in the business community.
In 2017, Frazier quit former President Donald Trump’s manufacturing council in response to Trump’s initial failure to condemn white supremacists.
Bae graduated from Harvard in 1994 and today he’s one of the most powerful private equity executives in the world.
Persons:
Ken Frazier, Joseph Bae, Frazier, Bae, Paul Finnegan, Claudine Gay, ”, Alan Garber, Penny Pritzker, ” Harvard, Pritzker, megadonor, Gay, Donald Trump’s, Catalyst, Garber
Organizations:
New, New York CNN, Merck, KKR, Harvard University’s, Ivy League, Harvard, Harvard Corporation, Corporation, Democratic Party, Harvard Law School, ExxonMobil
Locations:
New York, Asia