Jörg Reinhardt (born 11 March 1956) is a German businessman who has been the chairman of the board of directors of the Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG since 2013. Since 2017, he has also been a member of the board of directors of the Swiss reinsurance group Swiss Re.

Life and career

Reinhardt was born on 11 March 1956 in Homburg, Saarland, Germany. He studied pharmacy at the University of Saarland and graduated in 1982 with a doctorate. He started his career in 1982 with

Sandoz Sandoz Group AG is a Swiss company that focuses on generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars. Prior to October 2023, it was part of a division of Novartis that was established in 2003, when Novartis united all of its generics businesses under the ...

, who merged with Ciba-Geigy in 1996 to form

Novartis Novartis AG is a Swiss multinational corporation, multinational pharmaceutical company, pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland. Novartis is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and was the eighth largest by re ...

. At Sandoz, he worked in research and development and became head of development in 1994. Following the merger into Novartis, Reinhardt was responsible for preclinical development throughout the group and later for the entire drug development. In 2008, he became Chief Operating Officer of Novartis. From 2000 to 2010 Reinhardt was President of the Board of Trustees of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in the United States. From 2010 to 2012, he was Chairman of the Board of Management of

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HealthCare AG and Chairman of the Bayer HealthCare Executive Committee. In 2013, Reinhardt rejoined Novartis as chairman of the board.

Other activities

Corporate boards

* Swiss Re, Non-Executive Independent Member of the Board of Directors (since 2017) * Lonza Group, Member of the Board of Directors (2012-2013) * MorphoSys, Member of the Supervisory Board (2001-2004) *

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, Member of the European Advisory Panel

Non-profit organizations

* Robert Koch Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees

Personal life

Reinhardt is married and father of two children. He lives, since the completion of his studies, in Germany near

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References

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