Ally for the Poor in an Unlikely Corner

Andrew Witty is not quite as young or as buff as Anderson Cooper, but he does do interviews in shirtsleeves from the slums of Nairobi and rural hospitals in Uganda.

Andrew Witty, named GlaxoSmithKline's chief executive in 2008.

What makes that unusual is that Mr. Witty is not a roving CNN anchor, but the chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s second-largest drug company.
Besides being the youngest person in such a post — he was appointed in 2008 at age 43 —
he is also making a name for himself by doing more for the world’s poor than any other leader of a colossus of Big Pharma.