Shannon Thyme Klinger
US citizen, member of the Board from May 2016 until November 2020. Education: University of Notre Dame (USA), B.A. in Psychology; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), School of Law, J.D. with Honours.
Career
1996–2005 Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA, and Washington, DC, USA. 2005–2007 Vice‐President, Marketing Compliance and Associate Counsel, Barr Laboratories/Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Washington, DC, USA. 2008–2010 Senior Vice President and General Counsel NAFTA, Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc, Marietta, GA, USA. 2010–2011 Partner Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC. 2011–2012 General Counsel North America Sandoz Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA. 2012–2016 Global Legal Head and General Counsel, Sandoz International GmbH, Holzkirchen, Germany. 2016–2018 Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and Head of Litigation Novartis, Basel. Since 1 April 2018 Member of the Executive Committee of Novartis and since 1 June 2018 Group General Counsel of Novartis, Basel.