Alex Azar

Alex Azar is adjunct professor of business and senior executive-in-residence at the University of Miami Herbert Business School and a member of the Aspen Institute’s Health Strategy Group. Azar is the former secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services where he led the department’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was the architect of Operation Warp Speed, which delivered COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics in record time. Azar previously served as president of Lilly USA, LLC, the largest affiliate of Eli Lilly and Company. Before his tenure at Lilly, Azar was deputy secretary and general counsel of the US Department of Health and Human Services.