Biography
Lara Liss is Group Vice President, Global Chief Privacy Officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance, and co-lead of the organization’s AI Ethics program. She is an experienced in-house attorney and compliance professional with expertise in privacy, data security and health care who has led global privacy compliance and legal teams at two Fortune 100 companies and a domestic health care system. Her practice includes new and emerging areas of privacy law such artificial intelligence, biometrics, pharmacogenomics and developing technologies such as drones for retail.
Walgreens Boots Alliance is an integrated health care, pharmacy and retail leader serving millions of customers every day with sales of $132B in FY22. A trusted, global innovator in retail pharmacy with approximately 13,000 locations across the U.S., Europe and Latin America, WBA plays a critical role in the healthcare ecosystem. The company is reimagining local healthcare and well-being for all as part of its purpose – to create more joyful lives through better health. Through dispensing medicines, improving access to a wide range of health services, providing high quality health and beauty products and offering anytime, anywhere convenience across its digital platforms, WBA is shaping the future of healthcare.
Lara’s prior experience includes serving as Assistant General Counsel and Privacy Officer at UnityPoint Health, Senior Compliance Officer for the American Hospital Association and as Senior Counsel for Global Privacy at Abbott Laboratories. She is a member of the Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board, a board member of the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana and past member of the Education Advisory Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Lara started her career at Sidley Austin LLP in the health care group doing work that included internal investigations, health care litigation and regulatory guidance.
Lara has a J.D. and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Michigan, a B.A. in American Studies from Northwestern University and is currently completing an Executive MBA at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional-US.