India J&J India’s Jayashri Kulkarni lays out her approach to comprehensive leadership, drawing on her diverse career history across various sectors; her mandate to leverage innovative assets to transform disease management in India; and the importance of actively championing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the company, building a future-fit organization…
Portugal Marco Dietrich highlights some of the key challenges in Portugal’s healthcare system, Bayer Portugal’s continuing focus on introducing new products – particularly in diabetes, where Portugal has the highest prevalence in Europe –, and how he has led the strategic transformation of the affiliate focusing on agility and cost-effectiveness. …
Portugal Pfizer holds a prominent position in Portugal’s pharmaceutical landscape, especially in the hospital business and for COVID-19-related products, with the emphasis now on sustainable growth post-COVID. Paulo Teixeira, a 26-year pharma industry veteran, lays out his strategy for the affiliate and highlights some of the key challenges in Portugal’s healthcare…
Portugal Sérgio Alves describes the personal and professional factors that drove his return to Portugal, where he draws on enriching experiences gained from working in various European markets. He also discusses how AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine served as a jumping-off point for more wide-ranging discussions with governmental stakeholders, and the affiliate’s positive…
Portugal Speaking from Servier’s new open-plan office in Lisbon, a space aimed at promoting cross-functional integration and “collective intelligence,” experienced industry executive Frédéric Bengold looks back on three successful years at the helm of Servier Portugal and outlines his goals for the future. With a refreshed global visual identity and corporate…
Morocco Sanofi’s Adrien Delamare-Deboutteville describes the access to innovation landscape in Morocco today, how Sanofi is aiming to bolster access in line with the country’s universal healthcare transformation, and the lessons he took from his last position managing the company’s Ukraine operations as war broke out. We want to be…
UAE A charismatic force at the forefront of the country’s health transformation efforts, Dr Amin Al Amiri currently serves as assistant undersecretary at the UAE Ministry of Health as well as chairman of the UAE Supreme National Blood Transfusion Committee. In conversation earlier this year at BIO2023, Dr Al Amiri touched…
UAE Drawing on a quarter of a century of pharmaceutical industry experience, over 20 years of which has been spent in the UAE, Ayman Mokhtar today heads up Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia operations for Viatris. A global healthcare company with a broad range of products, Viatris is continually working…
Morocco Pierre Fabre has been present in the Moroccan market for nearly 40 years. Pierre Behnam, the company’s director for Africa, Middle-East and Türkiye discusses its strategy for bringing innovation and targeted therapies to patients in Morocco. I am confident that over time, with joint work between innovators and health…
Global New methodology for the 2024 Access to Medicine Index promises a stronger attempt to quantify whether drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics are actually making it all the way to patients in poorer countries around the world. Industry stakeholders eagerly await the biennial publication of the Access to Medicine Index, a…
Morocco A highly experienced stalwart of the North African pharma industry, Amine Sekhri today heads up AstraZeneca’s operations in Morocco. In his latest PharmaBoardroom conversation, Sekhri shares his delight at the positive healthcare transformations taking place across Morocco and Africa, gives his insight into the market access landscape for AstraZeneca’s most…
Global Claudia Martínez, generic & biosimilar medicines programme manager at the Access to Medicine Foundation, draws from a recent AMF report to outline what more generics companies can be doing to ensure greater access to their essential products. Martinez argues that for people living in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), generic and…
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