Eli Lilly and Company v. Canada (ICSID Case No. UNCT/14/2), Witness Statement of Anne Nobles (September 25, 2014)
I. Personal Background
1. My name is Anne Nobles. I am a citizen of the United States. I reside in Indianapolis, Indiana. I received a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Harvard College in 1978. I received a master’s degree from Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1979. I received my law degree from Georgetown University in 1984.
2. From 1984 to 1986, I practiced as an attorney at the Indianapolis law firm of Bose, McKinney & Evans. I specialized in the area of corporate law. From 1987 until 1988, I served as Securities Commissioner for the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana. In 1989, I served as a fiscal policy advisor to the Governor of Indiana and from December 1989 until November, 1990, I served as Deputy Director and General Counsel of the Hoosier Lottery, the state lottery of Indiana.
3. I joined Eli Lilly in 1990. From 1990 to 1999, I worked in various capacities in the company, including corporate affairs, regulatory affairs, public policy, and as Team Leader (akin to Executive Director) of the business-to-business group in the United States. In November 1999, when the Phase II clinical trials for Strattera were coming to an end, I was named to the position of team leader of the newly-formed Strattera product team. I served as head of the Strattera team until mid-2003, six months after the U.S. launch of the product.
4. After I left the Strattera product team in mid-2003, I moved to our corporate affairs department as Vice President of Corporate Affairs. There, I had worldwide responsibility for government affairs, media relations, communications, public policy, community relations, Lilly brand management, and access of Lilly products to government markets. The launch of major products like Strattera was part of my new job, and I continued to follow Strattera as it was launched in new markets. I retired from Lilly in 2012. I own stock in Lilly that I received as part of the standard compensation and retirement plans offered by the company.