U.S. Chamber CEO Suzanne Clark calls worker shortage "tragic"

June 14, 2021

Photo: "Axios on HBO"U.S. Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Suzanne Clark told me for "Axios on HBO" that she finds the Biden administration "easy to talk to. Clark, who took over in March as the first woman CEO in the chamber's 109-year history, has made the worker shortage a top issue, and recently launched a program she calls "Operation Warp Speed for jobs." I asked Clark: In the past when people thought of the Chamber of Commerce, they thought of a boys' club, and now you're the boss. "Well, you know, I'm married to a white middle-aged dude, so they're kind of my people," she joked. But she said the conversation now is that "as the world gets more diverse, ... what it's like to have all of these rooms open up.