As vice president, public affairs, Stephen Littlejohn is responsible for creating a positive external environment for Express Scripts, strengthening the company's ability to manage issues successfully and administering the company's philanthropy and community relations. Prior to joining Express Scripts, he was instrumental in making Kupper Parker Communications one of the nation's fastest growing health care public relations firms between 1998 and 2002, where he served as executive vice president.

Joining Fleishman-Hillard in 1991, Littlejohn created and built a growing health care services practice and led the St. Louis office health care and environmental communications group. His early public affairs career included positions at the DuPont Company, Gulf Oil Corporation and Monsanto Company, where he served as secretary of the Board of Directors social responsibility committee.

Littlejohn holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, a BA/MA in history from Cambridge University and a BA in history from Harvard University. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he attended Holy Cross High School and Holy Cross School in Dover, Del. Littlejohn is married with three children.

Personal Background

Student Council President and Eagle Scout. Co-chairman, Governor's Youth Council. Youth Consultant, Executive Board, National Catholic Committee on Scouting. Summer jobs include newspaper writing, radio reporting, political campaigns, conference planning and legal research. News director, WHRB radio. Delegate, 1976 Democratic National Convention. Former Member, Allegheny County Democratic Committee in Pittsburgh. Former member, American Red Cross Missouri-Illinois Blood Services Region board. He became a member of PRSA in 2001.

Publications

"Innovation on Trial: Punitive Damages Versus New Products," Science, Volume 246, December 15, 1989, pp. 1395 -1399.
"Competition and Cooperation: New Trends in Corporate Public Issue Identification and Resolution," California Management Review, Volume XXIX, Number 1, Fall 1986, pp. 109-123.