Jeffrey Sturchio,
Chairman of the Board
Dr. Jeffrey L. Sturchio is chairman of the Corporate
Council on Africa, a position he has held since
early 2008. He additionally is vice president,
corporate responsibility, at Merck & Co., Inc., in
Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, where he manages a
portfolio of activities including The Merck Company
Foundation/Corporate Contributions, the Merck
Institute for Science Education, the Merck Childhood
Asthma Network, global health partnerships
(including the Merck MECTIZAN Donation Program),
global HIV/AIDS access programs, corporate
responsibility reporting and the Merck Archives.
Since 2000, Dr. Sturchio has been centrally involved
in Merck's participation in the UN/Industry
Accelerating Access Initiative to help improve
HIV/AIDS care and treatment in the developing world.
He is also a member of the board of the African
Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships in Botswana and
a member of the private sector delegation to the
Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and
Malaria.
Dr. Sturchio received an A.B. in history from
Princeton University and a Ph.D. in the history &
sociology of science from the University of
Pennsylvania. His previous positions include the
AT&T Archives, the Beckman Center for the History of
Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers
University, and the New Jersey Institute of
Technology. He has also been a postdoctoral fellow
and senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of American History (NMAH). In 2004
he was appointed a visiting fellow of LSE Health and
Social Care at the London School of Economics and
elected a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He joined Merck in June 1989
as the company's first corporate archivist.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2009
Tom Barry,
Zephyr Investment Fund
Jodi Bond,
Motorola
Mark
Chiaviello,
Standard Bank Group
Amb. Frances Cook,
The Ballard Group
Terry Dunmire,
Mike
Fry,
ExxonMobil
Thomas
Gibian, EMP Investment Fund
William Guyton,
World Cocoa Foundation
Stephen
Hayes*,
CCA President & CEO
Lionel Johnson*, CCA Treasurer
Barbara
Keating,
Computer-Frontiers
Russell King,
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc
George
Kirkland,
Chevron
Desi Lopez-Fafie, Oracle
Leslie Mancuso,
JHPIEGO
Amb. Tom McDonald, Baker & Hostetler LLP
John Miller,
Raytheon
Jeff Morgan,
Mars, Inc
Mima
Nedelcovych,
Africa Global
George Otchere, SAIC
Heather Pederson, Boeing
J.B. Penn,
John Deere
Tim Richards,
General Electric
Paul Ryberg,
Africa Coalition for Trade
Thad Simons,
Novus International, Inc
William
Soule,
Lockheed Martin
Will
Stephens,
Johnson & Johnson Corp
Jeffrey
Sturchio,
Merck (rt.), CCA Chairman
Maurice
Tempelsman*,
Lazare Kaplan International Inc
Haskell Ward,
Global Alumina
Gretchen
Watkins,
Marathon Oil Company
Diane
Willkens,
Development Finance International, Inc
* Ex Officio |
