Professional Bio

Steven Kelmar (1979) is the retired executive vice president of corporate affairs at Aetna Inc.; a Fortune 100 health care benefits company. Over the course of his career, he held senior leadership roles at Merck & Co., Novartis AG, and Medtronic, and he has served on the boards of several health care companies. Kelmar also had a distinguished career in public service, including serving as assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President George H. W. Bush and as chief of staff to two members of Congress. He was honored with the 2011 Outstanding Political Science Alumnus Award from Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts.