Caroline Roan

Caroline Roan is Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at Pfizer Inc and is President of The Pfizer Foundation.

Caroline oversees Pfizer’s Corporate Responsibility (CR) function, from stakeholder engagement and reporting to the design of social investment strategies, and directs teams based in New York, Switzerland and South Africa.

During her tenure, Pfizer has refined its CR strategy to better support the company’s evolving business priorities. The resulting CR portfolio is a coordinated approach to strategic philanthropy and responsible investment which invests the full scope of the company’s resources to broaden access to medicines and strengthen health care delivery for underserved people around the world.

Prior to joining Pfizer, she worked on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Health Team, which focused on promoting individual and community health by increasing social support and connection. Roan was also Associate Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.

In 2012, Roan was selected and served as a David Rockefeller Fellow through the Partnership for New York City. She currently serves on the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, the advocacy arm of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.

Roan received her Bachelor of Arts in sociology and anthropology from Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, and her Masters of Public Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.