Allstate - You're in good hands

Senior Vice President, Corporate Relations,
and Interim Chief Marketing Officer
Allstate Insurance Company

Joan H. Walker is senior vice president, corporate relations, and interim chief marketing officer for Allstate Insurance Company and a member of the Allstate senior management team.

As senior vice president, corporate relations, Walker is responsible for external and internal communications for The Allstate Corporation and its subsidiaries.

As interim chief marketing officer Walker is responsible for all marketing activities across the company including brand strategy and identity, advertising, customer experience, promotions, sponsorships, direct marketing, Internet marketing, consumer insight and measurement, regional marketing management and all acquisition, cross-sell and retention activities.

Prior to joining Allstate in November 2005, Walker was executive vice president of marketing and communications for Qwest Communications International. She was responsible for all external and internal communications and corporate marketing. Her marketing responsibilities included advertising, brand management, market research, database management, web marketing and sales communications.

Previously, she was senior vice president, global public affairs, for Pharmacia. She had a similar role at Monsanto before the company's merger with Pharmacia & Upjohn. Before joining Monsanto, Walker was senior vice president of corporate communications at Ameritech from 1996 to 1999. She also served as a partner in the Bozell Sawyer Miller group and in governmental and educational roles.

Walker currently serves as a member of the board of trustees of the Arthur W. Page society, the Insurance Education Institute, the Business Civic Leadership Center, WTTW11, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the Chicago Architecture Foundation. She previously served on the boards of numerous Chicago community organizations including the Art Institute of Chicago, Brookfield Zoo, the Chicago Children's Museum, Prentice Women's Hospital Northwestern Memorial and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Walker received a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Douglass College at Rutgers University and a Master of Arts in sociology from Rutgers University.