Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-003537
Chunk: 17

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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 social, and governance (ESG) strategy, including the human capital management components. The Board also interacts with employees at various levels of seniority, not solely on the executive leadership team, which facilitates a better understanding of the company’s culture. The Board is actively involved in reviewing AbbVie’s privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and other information technology risks and opportunities and discusses these topics on a regular basis. The Board and its committees also regularly review other ESG topics. For more details about committee responsibilities and oversight, please see the committee discussion in the section titled “Committees of the Board of Directors”. Board Diversity

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| AbbVie is committed to maintaining a Board of Directors with the skill sets, experience, and leadership necessary to provide effective oversight of AbbVie’s business. AbbVie serves patients in approximately 175 countries and across many different diseases. A Board with different perspectives and experiences is critical to bringing innovative new medicines to patients and  to meeting their unique needs. | 36%          
 female Board 
 members      | 21%              
 ethnically or    
 racially diverse 
 Board members    |

24 | 2025 Proxy Statement

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| ​ | THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND ITS COMMITTEES |

| In identifying prospective directors, the Board considers diversity, including diversity of skills, experience, race, ethnicity, gender, age, and geography. The nominations and governance committee regularly considers the existing Board’s diversity and assesses the effectiveness of the recruitment process in achieving a Board with diverse and applicable experience. ​ |

Committees of the Board of Directors Audit Committee

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| Members                                                       | ​ | Key Characteristics and Responsibilities                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |   |   | Meetings in 2024: 6 |
| F. Waddell(Chair)R. AustinW. BurnsideM. MeyerE. RappG. Tilton | ​ | ✓   The audit committee is governed by a written charter. The charter sets forth the purposes of the audit committee, identifies qualifications required for the audit committee members, and describes the committee’s authority and responsibilities. ✓   The audit committee assists the Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversight responsibility with respect to AbbVie’s accounting and financial reporting practices and the audit process, the quality and integrity of AbbVie’s financial statements