Chief Legal Officer, Moderna
On Healthcare, A Q&A with Moderna’s Shannon Thyme Klinger
November 9, 2022
As chief legal officer and corporate secretary, Shannon Thyme Klinger leads Moderna’s legal, governance and corporate compliance efforts. She is also responsible for the company’s ESG strategy.
Ms. Klinger joined Moderna from Novartis (NYSE: NVS), where she served as Chief Legal Officer and a member of the Novartis Executive Committee since 2018. Previously, she served as Chief Ethics, Risk & Compliance Officer. During her ten-year tenure at Novartis, she held other roles of increasing responsibility, including General Counsel and Global Head of Legal at Sandoz, a Novartis division.
Across her career, Ms. Klinger’s work has focused on driving long-term business performance and building trust with society, including ensuring access to medicine, protecting innovation with intellectual property, championing the responsible use of data, and enabling excellence in product launches. She is also a committed advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion.
Ms. Klinger received her Juris Doctorate with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the District of Columbia Bar.