Christina Ackermann

Christina Ackermann has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel & President Ophthalmic Pharmaceuticals at Bausch + Lomb since January 2022. Ms. Ackermann joined Bausch Health as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, in August 2016. Prior to Bausch Health, Ms. Ackermann was part of the Novartis group of companies for 14 years, most recently serving as Senior Vice President, General Counsel for Alcon, where she was responsible for the for the legal, intellectual property and compliance functions, in addition to Trade Compliance Function, Enterprise Risk Management, and Diversity & Inclusion. Previously, she served as Global Head, Legal and General Counsel at Sandoz, the generics division of Novartis, from 2007 to 2012. She joined Novartis Pharma in 2002 as Head, Legal Technical Operations and Ophthalmics, and assumed the role of Head Legal General Medicine in July 2005. Before Novartis, Ms. Ackermann served in Associate General Counsel roles with Bristol Myers Squibb and DuPont Pharmaceuticals, as well as in private practice, where she focused on securities, and mergers & acquisitions. Since August 2021, Ms. Ackermann has served on the board of directors of Graybug Vision, where she is Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Ms. Ackermann holds a LL.B in law from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada and a post graduate degree in EU competition law from King’s College in London, England. They believe that Ms. Ackermann’s experience in business, legal affairs, compliance, global security and enterprise risk management makes her well qualified to serve as a director.