Pamela Passman

Pamela Passman is Chair, Corporate, and Managing Director of APCO Worldwide’s New York office. She works with clients on organizational purpose and impact, managing risk in global operations, and the intersection of technology and policy. Ms. Passman is the former President of the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade (CREATe.org) and Vice Chair of the Ethisphere Institute, a distinct entity that promotes leading practices and provides solutions to manage governance, compliance, and risks for companies and their global value chains. It was during her time at the Microsoft Corporation that Ms. Passman helped found KIND. She was the Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Global Corporate and Regulatory Affairs, and led Microsoft’s regulatory compliance work across a range of issues related to cloud computing, and its global government relations and public policy work. Ms. Passman also had leadership responsibility for Microsoft’s philanthropic programs and its cross-company global corporate citizenship efforts. Ms. Passman first joined Microsoft in 1996 and until 2002 led the Legal and Corporate Affairs organization in Asia, based in Tokyo, with a focus on Japan, Korea, and the People’s Republic of China.