EDWARD J. LUDWIG serves as chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a global medical technology company headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Mr. Ludwig joined BD in 1979 as a senior financial analyst and was named chief financial officer in August 1995, president in May 1999 and chief executive officer in January 2000. He was elected chairman in February 2002. Prior to joining BD, Mr. Ludwig served as a senior auditor with Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and as a financial and strategic analyst at Kidde, Inc. Active in philanthropic efforts, Mr. Ludwig is a member of the Board of Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross. He is a member and former chair of the Health Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also a trustee of the Hackensack University Medical Center. In March 2008, Mr. Ludwig ended a two-year term as chairman of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the world’s largest medical technology association. He currently serves on the AdvaMed Board of Directors and chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee. Additionally, Mr. Ludwig serves on Aetna’s Board of Directors and chairs the Audit Committee. Mr. Ludwig graduated from The College of the Holy Cross with a bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting, and he received his master of business administration in finance from Columbia Business School. He is also a certified public accountant.
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