• Chairman of the Healthcare Council, Executive Committee and Board of Directors Member, EuropaBio.
• Group Senior Director, Global Governmental and Public Affairs, Novartis International, Switzerland (Responsibility for ca. 30 countries incl. Western & Eastern Europe, Central Asia).
Multicultural, inclusive and reflective leader who lived in 6 countries on 3 continents.
Robust understanding of the global healthcare policies and life-sciences business with more than 25 years of experience in policy creation related to healthcare systems, EU integration and global pharmaceutical market.
Started his career at the Ministry of Health (Poland) counselling policy leaders on European integration and healthcare matters, followed by assignments in the Ministry of Health and Solidarity of the Republic of France (Paris, France) and Health Directorate of the European Commission (DG SANCO, Luxembourg).
After joining private sector has been serving in a number of senior leadership roles of growing responsibility in healthcare companies (GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott, Novartis) on country, regional and global levels (Poland, Belgium, Switzerland).
Educated in Poland, United States, Netherlands, Switzerland, with the background in political sciences, international relations (Warsaw’s University, Poland;European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, Netherlands) and business administration (EMBA from the IMD Business School Lausanne, Switzerland) he is an expert in healthcare systems, global healthcare policies and international business.