{"60282":{"#nid":"60282","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chip White Appointed to Advisory Committee on Council of Competitiveness","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III, Schneider National Chair in\nTransportation and Logistics, was recently appointed to serve on the Executive\nAdvisory Committee for the Council on Competitiveness\u2019 new U.S. Manufacturing\nCompetitiveness Initiative (USMCI).\u0026nbsp; Founded in 1986, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.compete.org\/ \u0022\u003ECouncil on\nCompetitiveness\u003C\/a\u003E is a nonpartisan, non-profit\norganization focused on enhancing the economic competitiveness of the U.S.\u0026nbsp; Based in Washington D.C., its members\ncomprise corporation chief executives, university presidents, and labor leaders.\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Executive Advisory Committee will help shape\ndifferent aspects of the USMCI, provide expertise, and address integration\nissues. The USMCI, guided by input from the Executive Advisory Committee, will\nwork to ensure that America is an attractive environment for high-value\nmanufacturing and that the U.S. retains its position of leadership in an\nincreasingly crowded and sophisticated global economic arena.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFormer Georgia Tech president Wayne Clough also served in\nvarious leadership roles on the Council, including university co-vice chair. The\nCouncil is made up of three co-vice chairs, representing industry, universities,\nand labor that together make up the governing body of the Council on\nCompetitiveness. Clough, with co-chair Sam Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM,\nalso helped the Council launch the National Innovation Initiative.\u2014a call to\naction to bolster U.S. competitiveness and innovation\u2014that paved the way for\nthe American COMPETES Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law in\n2007. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III, Schneider National Chair in\nTransportation and Logistics, was recently appointed to serve on the Executive\nAdvisory Committee for the Council on Competitiveness\u2019 new U.S. Manufacturing\nCompetitiveness Initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Chip White Appointed to Advisory Committee on Council of Competitiveness"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-08-02 10:18:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:08","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55103":{"id":"55103","type":"image","title":"Chelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III","body":null,"created":"1449175507","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:07","changed":"1475894486","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:26","alt":"Chelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III","file":{"fid":"190231","name":"White_Chelsea_-_Bust_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/White_Chelsea_-_Bust_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/White_Chelsea_-_Bust_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":257712,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/White_Chelsea_-_Bust_0_0.jpg?itok=96zcedH5"}}},"media_ids":["55103"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}