Edmund T. Pratt Jr.

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Edmund Taylor Pratt Jr.
Born1927
New York, New York
Alma materDuke University (BS)
University of Pennsylvania (MBA)
Occupation(s)Chairman and CEO of Pfizer

Edmund T. Pratt Jr. (1927 - September 5, 2002) was the Chairman and CEO of

Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
.

Early life

Pratt was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1927 and grew up in Elkton, Maryland.

Wharton School of Business in 1949.[4][5]

Career

Pratt began his career at

Kennedy Administration as assistant secretary of the Army for Financial Management.[7]

After leaving the government in 1964, Pratt joined Pfizer as controller. In 1969, he became chairman and president of Pfizer International. In 1971, he was elected president of Pfizer, and in 1972 he succeeded John Powers, Jr. as chairman and CEO.

During Pratt's two decades at the helm, Pfizer evolved into one of the fastest-growing

Norvasc. Under his leadership, annual revenue increased sevenfold, from $1 billion to nearly $7 billion.[8]

Pratt's earlier government service in Washington stood him in good stead as the Company grew and played a greater role in national and international matters. As advisor to United States Trade Representative Bill Brock in the mid-1980s, he played an instrumental role encouraging private sector involvement in trade matters. As chairman of the presidentially appointed Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations, he also broadened the trade agenda to include items of global impact, including the issue of intellectual property as a result of Pfizer's diminishing returns. In his own words "We were beginning to notice that we were losing market share [in developing countries] because our intellectual property rights were not being respected in these countries" [9] A member of the IPC trade delegation in the Punta del Este round of the GATT trade talks in 1986, he pushed hard for the creation of a commercially beneficial system of worldwide IP rights.

Pratt served as chairman of the Business Council of New York State, The Business Round Table, and the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations. On March 1, 1992, Pratt retired as chairman and continued his involvement with the Company as a director of the board until 1997.

During his tenure as head of Pfizer, Ed Pratt was instrumental in the creation of low-income housing around Pfizer's Brooklyn plant, the donation of a Pfizer building for a public charter school, and the economic development and improvements in neighborhood safety. He also held leadership positions in organizations such as the

United Way, the Boys Clubs of America, and the Girl Scouts of the USA. He made significant contributions to Long Island University, in 1998, to fund academic, computer, and library facilities and, in 1999, to Duke University which created the Pratt School of Engineering
.

Personal

Pratt was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1999. In 1987, he received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."

A magna cum laude graduate of Duke - who relied on a

U.S. Navy
scholarship to fund his education - Pratt donated $35 million to the university in 1999.

Pratt died of cancer on September 5, 2002, at the age of 75.

He was married to Nancy Rhodes Pratt and had two sons, Randolph and Keith.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Pfizer Gallery of Leaders: Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. | Pfizer: The world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company". Archived from the original on 2009-01-04. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  2. ^ "Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. - Leadership - Harvard Business School".
  3. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (7 September 2002). "Edmund Taylor Pratt Jr., 75, A Former Chairman of Pfizer". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "Edmund T. Pratt Jr. Gives Duke $35 Million to Endow School of Engineering". Archived from the original on 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
  5. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (7 September 2002). "Edmund Taylor Pratt Jr., 75, A Former Chairman of Pfizer". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "All News Releases and Press Releases from PR Newswire" (Press release).
  7. ^ "Duke Benefactor Edmund T. Pratt Jr. Dies". Archived from the original on 2010-07-26. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  8. ^ "Pfizer Gallery of Leaders: Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. | Pfizer: The world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company". Archived from the original on 2009-01-04. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  9. ^ Santoro, 1996, p6
  10. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (7 September 2002). "Edmund Taylor Pratt Jr., 75, A Former Chairman of Pfizer". The New York Times.
Government offices
Preceded by Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)
March 23, 1963 – November 25, 1964 		Succeeded by
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