Alex Azar

Alex Azar has a distinguished career in both public service and the private sector, notably serving as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and leading Eli Lilly and Co.’s U.S. operations. After serving as a law clerk for U.S.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia from 1992 to 1993, Alex Azar went on to build a distinguished career spanning public service and the private sector. Earlier in his legal career, Azar clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 1994 to 1996, he served as an associate independent counsel for Ken Starr during the Whitewater controversy, later becoming an attorney and partner at the Washington, D.C. firm Wiley Rein. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and government, graduating summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1988, and earned his Juris Doctor from Yale University in 1991.

He assumed critical leadership roles in the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, serving as Chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force from January to February 2020, and leading Operation Warp Speed, which accelerated the development of COVID-19 vaccines. In 2021, Azar was appointed as a Senior Executive in Residence at the Miami Herbert Business School, continuing to apply his extensive expertise across legal, pharmaceutical, and high-level government sectors to healthcare policy and public health.