Albert Bourla — CEO, Pfizer

**Evangelos "Albert" Bourla** is the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc., one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies (Need current 2024 revenue figures). He is best known for leading the development and global rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in less than one year — an achievement widely regarded as one of the greatest feats in pharmaceutical history. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece to a Sephardic Jewish family that survived the Holocaust, he earned a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and a PhD in the Biotechnology of Reproduction from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.