Speaker Biographies

Nancy Nielsen

Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship, Pfizer, Inc.

Nancy Nielsen is Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship, for Pfizer, Inc., the world's largest pharmaceutical company. She is leading Pfizer's global cross-divisional team on Corporate Citizenship and was the champion for Pfizer signing the U.N. Global Compact. Pfizer is the first and still only U.S. pharmaceutical company to sign, and the largest overall U.S. company to sign.

Prior to Pfizer, she created and led a project at Harvard University on globalization and backlash, and developed a three-day program for Davos, 2001. Previously, she was Vice President, Corporate Communications at The New York Times Company, which included Crisis Management and Investor Relations, and was the NYT spokesperson for 14 years. Before that, she was Director of Communications at ABC-TV and was a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Concurrent with the NYT, she did pro bono work in international stakeholder relations at the United Nations, World Bank, and the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. She's a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on its Public Diplomacy Committee, and is a trustee of the HealthCare Chaplaincy.

She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A. in journalism, and from Yale University's School of Management with an MBA.