Sahar Shepperd
Sahar Shepperd is the Vice President Law, Johnson & Johnson Vision.
Sahar joined Johnson & Johnson in January 2017 as the Legal Director for the Innovation Centre in EMEA. In 2020, Sahar went on to lead the MedTech UK and Ireland legal team. In this role, Sahar played a key role in the career development of the professional associates. Diversity, equity and inclusion are Sahar’s passions, demonstrated by her current role as Chair of the UK cross sector Employee Resource Group Empower (representing all ethnic diversities in the UK & Ireland) for which she received a nomination for the Inspirational Leader award by Investing in Ethnicity, her active involvement in the GLO EMEA Women’s Leadership & Inclusion (WLI) team leading the workstream celebrating International Menopause Day in 2022 and her active participation in the GLO DEI awareness week.
Sahar has over two decades of experience working in the healthcare sector. She is a scientist by background who started her career in law in 2000 as a patent attorney in private practice. Sahar has a degree in Microbiology from Imperial College London, a doctorate in Cellular Microbiology from University College London and received a distinction in the Legal Practice Certificate from BPP Law School London.