Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo. Indra Nooyi has been hand-picked by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to advise him and help him run the country.

Ms. Nooyi’s appointment to his strategic and policy forum was announced Wednesday by Mr. Trump’s transition team as one of three new appointments to the 16-member group. SpaceX Corp’s Elon Musk and Uber Technologies Inc.’s Travis Kalanick were the other two appointments.

The forum will be called upon to meet frequently with Mr. Trump to discuss his economic agenda.

Ms. Nooyi, who was born in Chennai, India and later went to Yale University to study public policy and management, will have a direct line, along with others in the group, to Mr. Trump to advise him on economic policy, job creation and productivity, said the release.

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