Karen Linehan is a former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Sanofi, a French global healthcare company, a role she held from 2007 to 2021. During this time Ms. Linehan supported multiple acquisitions and divestitures, complex litigations and government investigations as well as being a founding member of Sanofi s Gender Balance board. She joined Sanofi in 1991, and held roles of increasing importance including Assistant General Counsel from 1991 to 1996, International Counsel from 1996 to 2000 and Deputy Head of Legal Operations from 2000 to 2007. Prior to joining Sanofi, Karen Linehan was a Corporate Attorney at the New York-based legal firm Townley & Updike. She started her career in the Congressional Office of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Honorable Thomas P. O Neill, Jr. Ms. Linehan is currently a board member of Aelis Farma (France), a company which specializes in developing drugs targeting diseases of the brain, where she chairs the Audit Committee and serves as a member of the Remuneration Committee. She served on the board of Veon Ltd. (The Netherlands), a multinational telecommunication services company, where she was as a member the Audit Committee and the Nomination and Governance Committee. Ms. Linehan was a Non-Executive Director of The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) (North America), a Non-Profit Organization which is focused on pursuing the development of treatments for drug resistant infections. Ms. Linehan holds a Bachelor of American Studies and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in Law, both from Georgetown University in the U.S.A. Born in 1959, American and Irish citizenship.