Tim Cook Named to President Trump's American Workforce Policy Advisory Board

The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced the 25 members of the Trump administration's new American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty.

The advisory board's recommendations will help guide the National Council for the American Worker's efforts to establish a strategy to ensure that American students and workers have access to "affordable, relevant, and innovative education and job training that will equip them to compete and win in the global economy."

The board, co-chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump, is expected to help address a "skills crisis" due to the rapidly increasing use of technology, automation, and artificial intelligence that is shaping many industries across the United States.

The full list of members:

• Jay Box, President, Kentucky Community and Technical College System
  

• Walter Bumphus, President & CEO, American Association of Community Colleges
  

• Jim Clark, President & CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America
  

• Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
  

• Tom Donohue, CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  

• Juanita Duggan, President & CEO, National Federation for Independent Business
  

• Elizabeth Goettl, President & CEO, Cristo Rey Network
  

• Marillyn Hewson, Chairman, President, & CEO, Lockheed Martin
  

• Eric Holcomb, Governor, Indiana
  

• Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens USA
  

• Al Kelly, CEO, Visa
  

• Vi Lyles, Mayor, Charlotte, North Carolina
  

• Bill McDermott, CEO, SAP America
  

• Sean McGarvey, President, North America’s Building and Trades Unions
  

• Doug McMillon, President & CEO, Walmart
  

• Craig Menear, Chairman, President, & CEO, Home Depot
  

• Michael Piwowar, Executive Director, Milken Institute
  

• Scott Pulsipher, President, Western Governors University
  

• Kim Reynolds, Governor, Iowa
  

• Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President, & CEO, IBM
  

• Scott Sanders, Executive Director, National Association of State Workforce Agencies
  

• Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., President & CEO, Society for Human Resource Management
  

• Jay Timmons, President & CEO, National Association of Manufacturers
  

• Sheree Utash, President, WSU Tech
  

• Marianne Wanamaker, Professor, University of Tennessee

President Trump established the National Council for the American Worker in July 2018 to "create and promote workforce development strategies that provide evidence-based, affordable education and skills-based training for youth and adults to prepare them for the jobs of today and of the future."

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