tbenjamin21@nul.org

Ms. Benjamin is Senior Director, Social Impact and President of the Eli Lilly & Company Foundation. In this role, she manages the company’s corporate social responsibility efforts, disaster relief efforts, global health initiatives, Environmental, Social and Governance strategy, and community civic engagement. In 2020, she led the company’s global philanthropic efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as its philanthropic efforts to address racial inequity in the United States. Prior to this role, she was Senior Director, Litigation and Legal Compliance at Eli Lilly and Company.  In that role, she headed the company’s non-patent litigation group, managing the company’s product liability, complex commercial, and human resources litigation.  From 2015 to 2017, she served as the company’s Assistant General Counsel, Assistant Corporate Secretary.  In that role, she served as the company’s securities counsel and corporate governance counsel, as well as assistant secretary to the Board of Directors. From 2013 to 2015, she served as the company’s anti-corruption counsel and legal counsel on the company’s privileged internal investigation process.

Prior to joining Lilly, Ms. Benjamin served as Senior Investigative Counsel for the Democratic Staff of U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, working on investigations into national matters including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Wal-Mart Mexico bribery allegations, and the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.  Before joining the Committee, she worked as an attorney in the D.C. office of King and Spalding, as a member of its Special Matters team, handling white collar matters and government investigations.   Ms. Benjamin has a law degree from Harvard Law School and an undergraduate degree from Indiana University.