Joan H. Walker
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Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations
Allstate Insurance Company
Joan H. Walker is executive vice president, corporate relations, for Allstate Insurance Company, and a member of Allstate's senior leadership team. She is responsible for external and internal communications for The Allstate Corporation and its subsidiaries.
Before joining Allstate in 2005, Walker was executive vice president of marketing and communications for Qwest Communications International. She was responsible for all external and internal communications and corporate marketing. Her marketing responsibilities included advertising, brand management, market research, database management, web marketing and sales communications.
Previously, she was senior vice president, global public affairs for Pharmacia. She had a similar role at Monsanto before the company's merger with Pharmacia & Upjohn. Walker was senior vice president of corporate communications at Ameritech from 1996 to 1999. She earlier served as a partner in the Bozell Sawyer Miller group and in governmental and educational roles.
Walker currently serves as a member of the board of trustees of the Arthur W. Page Society, the Insurance Education Institute, the Business Civic Leadership Center, WTTW-11, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the Chicago Architecture Foundation. She previously served on the boards of numerous Chicago community organizations, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Brookfield Zoo, the Chicago Children's Museum, Prentice Women's Hospital Northwestern Memorial and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Walker received a bachelor's degree in sociology from Douglass College at Rutgers University and a master's degree in sociology from Rutgers University.
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