Julie Soderlund

This page was archived on 11 February 2020 and is not actively maintained Julie Soderlund is Vice President Communications at Philip Morris International (PMI). She joined the company in January 2012 as Director of Regulatory Communications until her death in 2016.1 Background Soderlund previously was employed as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s former press secretary. She worked for Schwarzenegger’s 2006 election…

This page was archived on 11 February 2020 and is not actively maintained Sergio Marchionne was on the Board of Directors of Philip Morris International (PMI) from 2008 until his death in July 2018.45 Affiliations Marchionne was the Chairman and CEO of car manufacturer Ferrari up to July 2018.67 PMI’s Louis C. Camilleri succeeded…

This page was archived on 11 February 2020 and is not actively maintained Graham Mackay was on the Board of Directors of Philip Morris International (PMI) from 2008 until his death in December 2013.910 SABMiller Mackay was the Chairman of SABMiller which was the world’s second largest beer company.9 In 1978, Mackay joined the…

This page was archived on 11 February 2020 and is not actively maintained Harold Brown was on the Board of Directors of Philip Morris International until October 2018.1213 In 2019 he passed away.14 Career in the Tobacco Industry Brown was the Director of the Altria Group Inc between 1983 and 2003, and between 2004…

Background This is one of six geographic regions of the World Health Organization (WHO). This region includes 22 countries, with a total population of nearly 679 million people.15 Smoking in the Eastern Mediterranean Region The latest WHO tobacco trends report, 2019, projects a smoking rate (properly called tobacco prevalence) of 18.6% in the EMR in 2020. The report expects…

Background The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) is India’s largest and oldest apex business chamber in India, founded in 1927. It describes itself as “Industry’s Voice for Policy Change”, and as providing a platform for networking and consensus building within and across sectors directly and indirectly for around 300,000 companies. 78, 79 Relationship with…

Drago Azinovic was appointed President, Middle East & Africa Region & Duty Free at Philip Morris International (PMI) in January 2018.118 Long Standing Career in the Tobacco Industry Azinovic joined PMI in 2009, and has held several senior management positions including:118 President Middle East & Africa & PMI Duty Free (2018) President Eastern Europe, Middle East &…

Martin King became Chief Financial Officer at Philip Morris International (PMI) in January 2018.118121 Long Standing Career in the Tobacco Industry King started working for Philip Morris USA in 1991, until 2003 when he joined PMI’s Portuguese subsidiary Tabaqueira SA as Managing Director.118 He has since held various leadership positions in the tobacco company,…

This page was archived on 14 January 2020 and is not actively maintained Save Our Pubs & Clubs: AmendTheSmokingBan.com was a “coalition of groups and individuals who believe that the public smoking ban introduced in Scotland in 2006 and the rest of the United Kingdom in 2007 is excessive and should be amended”.123 Its director was Simon…

Background Big Brother Watch describes itself as a “cross-party, non-party, independent non-profit organisation leading the protection of privacy and civil liberties in the UK”. It states that it uses both advocacy and campaigns and independent research and investigations to “inform policy and public debate”.130 It was founded in 2009 by Matthew Elliot, who also founded The TaxPayers’ Alliance.