Judy C. Lewent SM '72
Lewent is responsible for worldwide financial, corporate development, and corporate licensing matters, as well as for the Merck human health business in Asia North and Asia South, and for the Merck current joint venture relationships with Johnson & Johnson and Aventis. She is Chairman as well as a Board member of Merck Capital Ventures. Lewent also serves as a member of Merck's Management Committee, a senior management group which makes strategic decisions for the Company.
Lewent is a member of the Board of Directors of Dell Inc., Motorola, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Penn Medicine (University of Pennsylvania Health System); a trustee of the Rockefeller Family Trust; a life member of the MIT Corporation; and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Lewent earned a B.S. in Economics from Goucher College in 1970 and an M.S. in Management from MIT's Sloan School of Management in 1972.