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Barbara S. Jeremiah heads Alcoa's corporate development activities, which include corporate initiatives, supporting the business units as they look to expand through acquisitions and/or joint ventures, finding opportunities that cross business lines, and handling corporate divestitures. She was elected an executive vice president of Alcoa in July 2002. She is a member of the Alcoa Executive Council, the senior leadership group that provides strategic direction for the company.
Barbara joined Alcoa in 1977 as an attorney, subsequently was named general attorney, then managing general attorney, and senior managing attorney in 1991. She was elected assistant general counsel in 1992 and one year later elected secretary, where she was responsible for Alcoa Board of Directors meetings and related board matters. She was named to her most recent position as vice president of Corporate Development in 1998.
She serves on the Board of Directors of Equitable Resources Inc., the Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh and the Board of Trustees of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. She is also a member of the Business Advisory Council of the University of Virginia School of Law and the Women's Center National Council at the University of Virginia. She previously served on the Board of Trustees of Duquesne University.
She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Brown University and a Juris Doctor degree in law from the University of Virginia.
Barbara is married to John Wilson, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Alcoa and has two daughters. She was born January 9, 1952, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | 