Alex Azar
Adjunct Professor of Business and Senior Executive-in-Residence, University of Miami Herbert Business School; 24th Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services
Alex Azar is former US Secretary of Health and Human Services. Currently, Azar is an advisor to Foresite Capital, an adjunct professor at the University of Miami Herbert Business School, and a trustee of the Aspen Institute, the American Task Force On Lebanon’s Policy Advisory Board, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Future of Health Care Advisory Group, the advisory board of the National Institute for Healthcare Management Foundation, and the Healthcare Leadership Council. 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.
