Audrey Strauss
Executive Vice President
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer
Corporate Secretary
New York, New York

 Audrey Strauss joined Alcoa in May 2012 as Chief Legal Officer and also holds the titles of Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary.  She was also elected an Executive Vice President of the company.  Audrey has overall responsibility for Alcoa's legal, compliance and governance matters globally.  She is also a member of the Alcoa Executive Council, the senior leadership team that sets strategic direction for the company.
 
Audrey most recently was a senior Litigation Partner at the law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson, based in New York.  She has counseled corporations and individuals in a wide range of matters while at Fried Frank.
 
Prior to private practice, Audrey served in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. There she was Chief Appellate Attorney, supervising the office’s criminal appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also served as Chief of the Fraud Unit, where she supervised all securities and other fraud cases prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office.

Audrey has received a number of prestigious awards from organizations such as the Federal Bar Council and the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, and has been consistently recognized by the highly regarded “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.” She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and Vice President of the Federal Bar Council.
 
She earned her Juris Doctor at Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Kent Scholar. She received her Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) at Barnard College.