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Ford Executive Biographies

11 September 1998

Ford Executive Biographies

    DEARBORN, Mich., Sept. 11 -- Ford Motor Company
released today the bios of Alex Trotman, William Clay Ford, Jr., and Jacques
A. Nasser:

    ALEX TROTMAN, chairman, chief executive officer and president since Nov.
1, 1993.  Announced plans to retire Jan. 1, 1999.  Born July 22, 1933, in
Middlesex, England.  Educated at Boroughmuir School in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Received master's degree in business administration from Michigan State
University.  Joined Ford of Britain in 1955 as a student trainee and held a
number of managerial positions in product planning.  Named director of Ford of
Europe's Car Planning Office in 1967.  Came to the United States in 1969 on
special assignment for advanced car product planning.  Was appointed chief car
planning manager for Car Product Development Group in 1975, executive director
of operations planning in 1977 and assistant general manager of Truck and
Recreation Products Operations in 1978.  Rejoined Ford of Europe in October
1979 and elected a company vice president one month later when he was named
vice president - Truck Operations, Ford of Europe.  Appointed president - Ford
Asia-Pacific Inc. in 1983.  Became president - Ford of Europe Oct. 1, 1984,
and chairman - Ford of Europe, March 1, 1988.  Was elected an executive vice
president Jan. 12, 1989, and became executive vice president - Operations,
North American Automotive Operations Feb. 1, 1989.  Named executive vice
president - North American Automotive Operations May 1, 1989.  Elected
president and chief operating officer - Ford Automotive Group and to the Ford
Board of Directors on Jan. 1, 1993.

    WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.,  elected chairman of the Board of Directors,
effective Jan. 1, 1999.  Born May 3, 1957.  Vice chairman of the Detroit Lions
professional football team and a member of the NFL Finance Committee and NFL
Properties Committee.  Was elected to Ford Motor Company's Board of Directors
on Jan. 14, 1988.  Mr. Ford formerly was a Ford Motor Company vice president
overseeing the Commercial Truck Vehicle Center in Ford Automotive Operations.
He joined the company in 1979 and served in several positions before embarking
on a 12-month course of study as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 1983.  When he returned to Ford
he joined Finance Staff and in 1985 was appointed to a management position in
Car Product Development.  He traveled to Europe in 1986 where he was appointed
director of Commercial Vehicle Marketing for Ford of Europe.  He was elected
chairman and managing director of Ford Switzerland in 1987.  In 1989 Mr. Ford
returned to the U.S. and assigned to Ford Truck Operations and later manager
of Heavy Truck Engineering and Manufacturing.  He was named director of
Business Strategy for the Ford Automotive Group in March 1990 and became
executive director a year later.  He was appointed general manager of Climate
Control Division in August 1992.  Mr. Ford serves as chairman of  the Finance
Committee, and is a member of the Organization Review and Nominating
Committee.  He also is chairman of the Environmental and Public Policy Issues
Committee.

    JACQUES A. NASSER, elected president and chief executive office, effective
Jan. 1, 1999.  Presently executive vice president, president-                                                            -                                                             -Ford Automotive
Operations and chairman - Ford of Europe.  Born Dec. 12, 1947.  Received
degree in business studies from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Joined Ford of Australia in 1968 as a financial analyst and held a number of
positions with Ford's international and U.S. operations, including assignments
in Asia-Pacific and Latin America.  In 1987, was named director - vice
president, Finance and Administration, for Autolatina, the holding company
that oversees Ford and Volkswagen operations in Brazil and Argentina.  Named
president of Ford of Australia in February 1990.  Elected a company vice
president and named chairman of Ford of Europe Inc., Jan. 1, 1993.  Became
group vice president - Product Development, Ford Automotive Operations, on May
1, 1994.  Assumed present position Nov. 1, 1996.