Malini Moorthy

Ms. Malini Moorthy has been Head of the Litigation Department of Bayer Corporation since July 30, 2014. When she left Pfizer Inc., Ms. Moorthy spent many years as a litigation associate at law firms in the United States and Canada, including the New York office of Salans, and Genest Murray Desbrisay Lamek and McCarthy Tetrault, both in Toronto. Before beginning her corporate law career, Ms. Moorthy served as Executive Director of Free the Children in Toronto, an international children’s organization dedicated to ending the exploitation of children and empowering them through leadership development and training. Ms. Moorthy serves as the chair of the Advisory Council of the Duke Law Distinguished Lawyers Series and is on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. She received her bachelor’s degree with honors in political science and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar, and her law degree from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, where she was the editor of the Queen’s Law Review.