Management Biography - Miles D. White

Miles D. White

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Miles D. White is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Abbott, a pharmaceutical and medical products company. Mr. White joined Abbott in 1984, was named chief executive officer in 1998 and became chairman of the board in 1999.

Mr. White currently also serves as a director of McDonalds, as vice chairman of the Chicago 2016 board of directors, and is a member of the board of trustees of The Field Museum, of which he is immediate past chair. He serves on the boards of the Museum of Science and Industry, The Joffrey Ballet, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is vice chairman of the boards of the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago, and the Culver Educational Foundation. He is a trustee on the board of Northwestern University, chairman of the Dean's Advisory Board at Kellogg School of Management, and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He is former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, The Economic Club of Chicago, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).

Mr. White earned both a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in business administration from Stanford University.