Kathleen Wilson-Thompson

Kathleen Wilson-Thompson is executive vice president and global chief human resources officer for Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., based in Deerfield, Illinois.

Ms. Wilson-Thompson joined Walgreen Co. in January 2010 as senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Following the strategic partnership between Walgreens and Alliance Boots announced in June 2012 and resulting in the merger of the two companies and formation of Walgreens Boots Alliance on December 31, 2014, Ms. Wilson-Thompson is currently the company’s executive vice president and global chief human resources officer.

Prior to her role at Walgreens, she held several positions of increasing responsibility in the operations and legal departments at Kelloggs from 1992 to 2010 and left Kelloggs as senior vice president of global human resources to join Walgreens. She also worked as vice president and staff counsel of litigation and banking law for Michigan National Corporation in Farmington Hills, Mich., from 1986 to 1991.

Ms. Wilson-Thompson earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1979, a Juris Doctorate in 1982 and an LLM, master of laws in corporate and finance law in 1996, both from Wayne State University in Detroit.

Ms. Wilson-Thompson is a board member on the Vulcan Materials Company Board of Directors and serves on the board of The Alumni Association of The University of Michigan, The NAACP Foundation, The Chicago Children’s Choir, and Skills for Chicagoland’s Future and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Civil Rights Museum. Additionally, Ms. Wilson-Thompson was named by Black Enterprise magazine in 2012 as one of its “Top 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America and in 2015 as its “50 Most Powerful Women in Corporate America”. Finally, she was named a Distinguished Alumni of Wayne State University Law School in 2016.