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Kenneth Frazier

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American lawyer and businessman

United StatesLawyersBorn 1954 · age 71
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Kenneth Carleton Frazier is an American business executive. He is executive chairman and former CEO of the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.. After joining Merck & Co. as general counsel, he directed the company's defense against litigation over the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx.

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2021Time 100
2018Time 100
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Kenneth Carleton Frazier is an American business executive. He is executive chairman and former CEO of the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.. After joining Merck & Co. as general counsel, he directed the company's defense against litigation over the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx. Frazier is the first African American man to lead a major pharmaceutical company. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.

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United States
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Lawyers
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Lawyer
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living
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Born 1954 · age 71
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