Bruce Gelb
{{Short description|American business executive and diplomat (born 1927)}}
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| country= Belgium
| term_start= November 10, 1991
| term_end= July 11, 1993
| predecessor= Maynard W. Glitman
| successor= Alan Blinken
| president= George H. W. Bush
| birth_date= {{birth date and age|1927|02|24}}
| birth_place= New York City, New York, U.S.
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| party= Republican
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Bruce Stuart Gelb (born February 24, 1927) is an American businessman and diplomat. He is the retired president of Clairol and former vice chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb.{{cite web|url=http://www.americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction%3DMembers.view%26memberid%3D159 |date=2004|title=Member profile: Bruce S. Gelb|website= Council of American Ambassadors|accessdate=2010-12-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101211212348/http://americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Members.view&memberid=159 |archivedate=2010-12-11 }}
Early life and education
Gelb was born in New York City on February 24, 1927.{{cite book |title=State |date=1991 |publisher=The Department |pages=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRszw9RexSUC&dq=bruce+gelb+1927+new+york&pg=RA4-PA8 |access-date=22 September 2022}} His father, Lawrence M. Gelb, founded Clairol in 1931.Bruce Gelb: telling 'The American Story.' Broadcasting, Oct 29, 1990 v119 n18 p87(1) Gelb graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1945. Gelb was in the military and went on to receive a B.A. from Yale in 1950 and an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1953.{{cite web|title=Bruce Gelb Executive Profile for Company in Overview of CareCounsel, LLC|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=13396744&privcapId=79756223&previousCapId=30852349&previousTitle=Bizworld|publisher=Bloomberg Business Week|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008072806/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=13396744&privcapId=79756223&previousCapId=30852349&previousTitle=Bizworld|archivedate=8 October 2012}}
Appointments
- Director of the United States Information Agency (George H.W. Bush) from 1989 to 1991
- Ambassador to Belgium (George H. W. Bush) from 1991 to 1993
- Commissioner for the United Nations, Consular Corps and International Business (Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani) from 1994 to 1997
- Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (George W. Bush) 2003-2006
He has been a Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club; a Life Trustee of Choate Rosemary Hall; a board member of the United Nations Development Corporation; a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Council on Science and Health; Honorary Chairman and a Regent of the Center for Security Policy; and a member of the Advisory Board of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|3348}}
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Category:American businesspeople
Category:Choate Rosemary Hall alumni
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:Harvard Business School alumni