Sidney Harman
Dr. Harman serves as chairman and CEO of Harman International Industries, widely recognized as the premier audio company in the world. The company, with sales approaching $2 billion annually and almost 10,000 employees, is widely known for the "Quality of Working Life" programs the chairman initiated at the company's plants around the world.
Dr. Harman served as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce from 1977 to 1978, and was the founder of the program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development at the Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government" and is a member of its Science, Technology and Public Policy Program advisory committee.
Dr. Harman is the chairman of the executive committee of Business Executives for National Security, chairman of the program committee of the board of The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a trustee of The Carter Center and a member of the board of the National Alliance of Business. Active in education, Dr. Harman for three years served as president of Friends World College, the world-wide experimental Quaker college.
He has been a trustee of the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, and the National Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Council on Competitiveness.
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