The Economist Events' Pharma Summit 2015: The Dawn of a New Era

LONDON, February 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Challenges impacting the world of pharma as well as the innovation required to face them 

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The Pharma Summit, now in its 21st year, is a must-attend event for industry leaders. The Summit provides a unique platform for stakeholders from across the industry to convene, share views and network with peers. This year's theme, 'The dawn of a new era', will observe the challenges the industry is facing as well as the innovation required to face them.

The annual Pharma Summit will be held in London on Thursday, February 26th2015 at The Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London, from 9:00am to 5:30pm.

Kieran Murphy, a panel speaker and President and Chief Executive Officer, Life Sciences, GE Healthcare, commented:  

"The technology promise in healthcare has never been more exciting, with the convergence of precision medicine, big data, analytics and the industrial internet, on top of breakthroughs in biologics, gene and immuno-therapies. Can the industry speed up and will payers pay up? This Pharma Summit will focus on how industry can innovate and collaborate to bring better, more effective and affordable medicine to more people, and still meet business objectives.  I am looking forward to the meeting, the panels and the lively discussions it will provoke."  

The Pharma Summit will address areas such as improving access and affordability of medicines, the immense differences between developed and emerging markets, technology in pharma, and enhancing partnerships across the ecosystem to benefit all. The event will bring together leading voices representing global pharmaceutical companies, patient associations, non-profit organisations, regulators and field experts to continue providing the most relevant insight, invaluable to the pharma industry.

Key speakers at the Summit include: 

• Guido Rasi, Principal Adviser in Charge of Strategy, European Medicines Agency
• Andrew Hotchkiss, President, Australia, Canada and Europe, Lilly
• Maureen Baker, Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners
• Sir Michael Hirst, President, International Diabetes Federation
• Manica Balasegaram, Executive Director - Access Campaign, Medecins Sans Frontieres
• Richard Barker, Director, CASMI (Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation)
• Francois Bernard, Head of Market Access and Communications, MundiPharma
• Alison Clough,  Executive Director Commercial UK, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
• Sir Andrew Dillon, Chief Executive Officer, National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust
• Patrick Flochel, Partner, Global Pharmaceutical Sector Leader, Global Life Sciences Centre, EY
• Michel Goldman, former Executive Director, Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
• Matthias Gottwald, Head Research and Development Policy and Networking, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals
• Janet Hammond, Global Head and Senior Vice-president, Infectious Diseases Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development
• James Heywood, Chairman and Co-founder, Patients Like Me
• Heidi Hunter, Head of Biosimilars Business Unit, Boehringer-Ingelheim
• Stefan Kapferer, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD
• Nuria Mas, Professor of Economics, IESE Business School
• David McMillan, Chief Executive Officer, Europe, Aviva
• Duncan Moore, Partner, East West Capital Partners
• Jeremy Morgan, International Vice-president Diabetes, Lilly
• Kieran Murphy, President & Chief Executive Officer, GE Healthcare Life Sciences
• Vivek Muthu, Chair, Economist Intelligence Unit Healthcare
• Vas Narasiham, Global Head of Development, Novartis
• Diem Nguyen, General Manager, LOE Portfolio Head, US Promoted Brands, Pfizer
• Jim O'Neill, Chair, Review on Antimicrobial Resistance
• David Solomon, Chief Executive Officer, Bionor Pharma
• Adrian Thomas, Vice-president Global Market Access, Commercial Strategy Operations and Global Public Health, Janssen
• Bart Vannieuwenhuyse, Senior Director of Health Information Sciences, Janssen
• John Watson, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, UK Department of Health
• Pascale Witz, Executive Vice-president Global Divisions & Strategic Development, Sanofi

For more information and to view the full programme please visit: http://www.pharmasummit.economist.com

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Gold sponsor: IESE
IESE Business School, the graduate school of management of the University of Navarra, is consistently ranked among the world's leading business schools. Highly international, the school is committed to the education and development of responsible business leaders worldwide. It offers high calibre degree and executive education programmes, and conducts rigorous research initiatives that are global in scope.

In addition to world class campuses in Barcelona and Madrid, the school has a centre in New York City and offices in London, Munich and Sao Paulo. It also delivers programmes at numerous other locations, including Miami, Dubai and Shanghai. IESE launched Europe's first two-year MBA programme in 1964 under the guidance of Harvard Business School and it also pioneered the concept of executive education for business leaders in Europe.

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