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Ford's Nasser to Speak at '99 SAE Congress Banquet

6 January 1999

Ford's Nasser to Speak at '99 SAE Congress Banquet

    WARRENDALE, Pa., Jan. 6 -- Jacques A. Nasser, the newly
elected President and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Company, will be
the featured speaker at the '99 SAE Congress Banquet in the Riverview Ballroom
of Cobo Center, Detroit, Michigan on Thursday, March 4 at 7 p.m.
    The banquet is the culmination of the four-day '99 SAE Congress being held
in Cobo Center March 1-4, with more than 46,000 attendees, nearly 1,400
exhibiting companies and a record 230 technical sessions, making it the
largest technical conference of its kind in the world.
    With Ford since 1968, Nasser has risen to the number two position under
chairman of the board William Ford through a series of assignments in the
United States and overseas.
    Before he moved to his present position, Nasser has been president-Ford
Automotive Operations since 1996.  He was group vice president-Product
Development, Ford Automotive Operations from 1994-96 and was elected chairman
of the board, Ford of Europe, and a Ford Motor Company vice president in 1993.
    Nasser, who speaks English, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese, ran Ford of
Australia as president and chief executive officer from 1990-93.
    He was involved as the first director - vice president of Finance and
Administration for Autolatina, Ford's joint venture with Volkswagen in Brazil
and Argentina, from 1987-1990.
    To register for '99 SAE Congress or to obtain further information on the
Congress, call 1-877-SAECONG (723-2664) or visit the SAE website at
http://www.sae.org
    News media can obtain further information on SAE at http://www.sae.org/media.