Biography:

Austin P. Sullivan, Jr.

Sr. Vice President, Corporate Relations

General Mills, Inc.

Austin P. Sullivan, Jr., was named Senior Vice President, Corporate Relations, in December 1994. Sullivan joined General Mills in 1976. He became Corporate Director of Governmental Relations in 1977, and was named a Vice President in 1978. He was appointed Director of Public Affairs in 1979, and assumed responsibility for corporate communications in 1993. In 1994 he assumed responsibility for the General Mills Foundation, Community Affairs and Consumer Services.

He is chairman emeritus and a member of the executive committee of the Council of Public Affairs Executives; chairman emeritus and a director of the Public Affairs Council; a member of the board of directors of Medica Health Plans; a member of the Board of Trustees of Minnesota Public Radio; a member of the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture’s Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology; Co-Chair of the Business Roundtable Fiscal Policy Coordinating Committee; a member of the Government Affairs Council of the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA); Chairman of GMA’s Biotechnology Task Force; a member of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology’s Stakeholder Forum; a member of the P.R. Seminar; and a member of the Board of Governors of the Minneapolis Club.

He has also served as a director and member of the Executive Committee of the Guthrie Theatre; vice chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce; member of the board of directors of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce; a member of the National Commission for Employment Policy (Presidential appointment); chairman of the Governor's Job Training Council (MN); co-chair of the Governor's Commission on Economic Dislocation (MN); member of the Governor's Commission on Corporate Takeovers (MN); chairman of the Minneapolis Private Industry Council; and a director of the Urban Coalition of Minneapolis, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and the Minneapolis Community Business Employment Alliance.

Sullivan was born on June 26, 1940, in Washington, D.C., and received an A.B. degree with honors from Princeton University in 1964. He was an Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow in Interracial Relations in 1964-5, with the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity in 1965-6 and on the staff of the Committee on Education and Labor of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1976. He served in the USMC from 1957 to 1959.