Assil Omar

Assil Omar currently serves as AbbVie’s Vice President, People Experience, responsible for leading EEDI efforts to foster diversity and inclusion at AbbVie, modernizing HR practices to reach more employees while elevating their experience, and leading mergers and acquisitions for HR.

Assil joined AbbVie in Singapore in 2014, to lead Talent Management and Acquisition in the Japan and Asia Pacific region. She has since held roles of growing responsibility within Human Resources, including Talent Management, Human Resource business partnership, Strategy, Technology, Data & Analytics, Organizational and Employee Research, Talent Acquisition and Human Capital Planning.

Assil spent the early part of her career in Supply Chain with Agility, assuming different roles of increasing responsibility in Leadership Development and Talent, across the Middle East, Africa, Japan and Asia Pacific. Prior to joining AbbVie, she held Learning and Development positions at Unilever and played a key role in standing up Unilever’s flagship Leadership Development hub, Four Acres, in Singapore, bringing Unilever’s world-class executive education to Asia.

Assil holds an Honors Bachelor of Arts, History, International and Comparative Studies from University of Western Ontario and a Master of Arts degree in Education from the University of Toronto. She is a First Mover Fellow at the Aspen Institute for Business and Society.