Dr Oualae Alami is Vice President, Global Vaccines Combination and Influenza Lead, Pfizer Biopharmaceutical Group & Vice Chair, Arab International Women's Forum
Oualae has over 20 years of experience in the health care industry.
She is a global commercial leader working currently for Pfizer as the Global lead for Combination vaccines and Influenza. Her work involves leading and empowering diverse teams to build the global strategy that would allow these vaccines, when successful and approved, to deliver on their promise and benefit the widest group of people.
Oualae is a disruptive and transformational leader that believes in the power of combining diversity and inclusion of teams with innovative approaches and excellence in execution as vehicles to make a meaningful impact on health and communities.
Prior to this role, Oualae has held various complex leadership roles across Europe and Africa and Middle East. She led Pfizer Hospital Business across Western Europe and contributed to advance on some of the world’s most pressing health issues in the field of infectious disease especially in the face of Covid-19 pandemic and Anti-microbial resistance.
She also led various countries across Africa and Middle East as General Manager and continues to feel passionate about the role she played leading Pfizer’s Oncology organization across the region. When asked about her time in Africa Middle East, she takes pride in the work she had done with her team to advocate for policies and practices that foster innovation, and the partnership they had created with various stakeholders to develop successful healthcare solutions to expand availability and access to novel medicines.
Oualae is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion with a focus on advancing Women in leadership. She is involved in various forums that focus on developing, mentoring, and coaching women and is invited to speak regularly about the topic. Oualae currently serves as the Global Chair for Pfizer Women resource group (PWR), a group dedicated within Pfizer to developing the strategies and tactics needed to build an equitable workplace for Woman and support them advance into key leadership roles. Prior to that, she served as the chair of Africa and Middle East diversity, equity and inclusion council, leading Pfizer’s efforts to champion key initiatives that aimed to promote diversity and inclusion in the region.
Oualae also serves as the Vice Chair of AIWF, the Arab International Women’s Forum, a global non-for-Profit NGO based in London that convenes global and emerging leaders from government, public service, business, civil society, academia and media to create an Arab world where women are empowered to make a positive impact as equals and as leaders, in their communities.
Oualae was born in Morocco, lived in Europe and the Middle East, transitioned by the United States before relocating to Madrid where she currently lives with her family.
Oualae holds a Doctorate degree in Pharmacy from Paris XI University as well as various advanced degree from ESSEC, France, Harvard Business School and MIT. She is certified by the European Women on board group and was a recipient of the luminary award by the Healthcare Businesswomen Association in 2022.