Rachel Brand

Rachel Brand currently serves on the boards of directors of PhonePe Limited and of Walmart de Mexico y Centroamerica. Through January 2026, Rachel served as Walmart’s executive vice president of global governance, chief legal officer, and corporate secretary. She oversaw the company’s global legal, compliance, ethics, corporate governance, enterprise risk management, digital citizenship, aviation, investigative, and corporate security functions, including Walmart’s Global Security Operations Center.Immediately before joining Walmart in early 2018, Rachel served as the United States Associate Attorney General. She had previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy during President George W. Bush’s administration. Also during the Bush administration, Rachel served as Associate Counsel to the President at the White House. Her other government service includes an appointment by President Obama to serve as a Member of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. She served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States and Justice Charles Fried on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In the private sector, she was a lawyer in private practice at two law firms in Washington, D.C. and served as the Vice President and Chief Counsel for Regulatory Litigation at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center.In the non-profit sector, Rachel serves on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center. She has previously served on the boards of the Walmart Foundation, the International Justice Mission, and Doorways for Women and Families. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. Rachel earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota-Morris and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.