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Frances F. Townsend has served as our Executive Vice President for Corporate Affairs, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Compliance Officer since March 2021. In this role she oversees Government Affairs, Public Policy, and Communications among other corporate functions.

Prior to joining Activision Blizzard, Fran served as vice chairman, general counsel, and chief administrative officer at MacAndrews & Forbes, Inc. Prior to that, she was a corporate partner with Baker Botts LLP. From 2004 to 2008, Fran served as the assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism to President George W. Bush, chairing the Homeland Security Council during a pivotal period for the United States.

Fran is on several non-profit boards including the Atlantic Council, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She also is the Co-Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored Independent Task Force on Preparing for the Next Pandemic.

[on correctly guessing 9/11 was a terrorist attack]: Given what I did at OIPR, when the first plane hit, I knew immediately that it was terrorism. If it had been a little plane, it would have bounced off the side of the World Trade Center building. Any commercial pilot of a plane that size would have put the plane down in the Hudson and done everything to avoid a building. There is no version of this that is explainable by a professionally trained pilot

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