Carla A. Hills

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, International Consultants

Mrs. Hills joined Gilead's Board of Directors in 2007. She is currently the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Hills & Company, a firm providing advice to U.S. businesses on investment, trade and risk assessment issues outside the United States.

Mrs. Hills serves on the international advisory boards of J.P. Morgan Chase, American International Group, Rolls Royce and the Coca-Cola Company. She is Chair of the Inter-American Dialogue and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Co-Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a member of the Executive Committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Trilateral Commission and a member of the board of the U.S.-China Business Council and the International Crisis Group.

Mrs. Hills served as U.S. Trade Representative from 1989 to 1993 and was principal advisor on international trade to President George H. W. Bush. Under President Gerald Ford, Mrs. Hills served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.