Speaker Details

Lars Rebien Sørensen
President and CEO, Novo Nordisk A/S

Lars Rebien Sørensen joined Novo Nordisk's Enzymes Marketing in 1982. Over the years, he has been stationed in several countries, including the Middle East and the US. Mr Sørensen was appointed a member of Corporate Management in May 1994, and in December 1994 he was given special responsibility within Corporate Management for Health Care in December 1994. He was appointed president and CEO in November 2000.

Mr Sørensen is a member of the boards of DONG Energy A/S and Danmarks Nationalbank, both in Denmark, as well as a member of the Bertelsmann AG Supervisory Board, Germany.

Mr Sørensen has an MSc in Forestry from The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark (now the Life Sciences Faculty of the University of Copenhagen) from 1981 and a BSc in International Economics from the Copenhagen Business School from 1983. Mr Sørensen received the French award Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur in 2005. In October 2007, Mr Sørensen became an adjunct professor at the Life Sciences Faculty of the University of Copenhagen.

Mr Sørensen is a Danish national, born on 10 October 1954.

 

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