Leadership Dialogue with Bill Ford ’79

Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman William Clay Ford Jr., a 1979 Princeton University alumnus, shared his insights in “The Auto Industry: From Recovery to Revolution,“ in the 2011 G. S. Beckwith Gilbert ’63 Lecture Feb. 15 at the Friend Center for Engineering Education. Ford joined the Ford Motor Company in 1979 as a product planning analyst and held a variety of domestic and international assignments in manufacturing, sales, marketing, product development and finance. He served as chief executive off