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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 2008

Tom Barry, Zephyr Investment Fund
Jodi Bond, Motorola
Jim Bowser, Marathon Oil
Mark Chiaviello, Standard Bank Group
Claudette Christian, Hogan and Hartson LLP
Frances Cook, Pegasus Energy c/o The Ballard Group
Terry Dunmire, DynCorp
Mike Fry, ExxonMobil
Thomas Gibian, EMP Investment Fund
William Guyton, World Cocoa Foundation
Stephen Hayes*, Corporate Council on Africa
Barbara Keating, Computer-Frontiers
George Kirkland, Chevron
Ollie Knight, Human Resource Development Institute
Desi Lopez-Fafie, Oracle
Lester 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
David Stark, Stark and Associates
Will Stephens, Johnson & Johnson Corp
Jeffrey Sturchio, Merck
Earl Young, JR Boulle & Company

*Ex Officio Lazare Kaplan International Inc.
Lionel Johnson, Stanford Eagle, Treasurer
Stephen Hayes*, CCA, President