People: Sanofi SA (SASY.PA)

Mr. Thierry Bourquin has been Vice President, Chief Quality Officer and Member of the Global Leadership Team of Sanofi SA since July 2009. He is a Pharmacist and graduated in Biology and Drug Product Control. After serving in Hospitals and at Paris University, he held several positions in Analytical Development, Quality, and Manufacturing in Pharmaceutical Industry (Pfizer, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, and Aventis). At European level, he was an expert of the European Pharmacopoeia and member of the Quality Ad Hoc group of EFPIA. In 1994, he was elected member of the French National Academy of Pharmacy. From 2001 to 2011, Mr. Bourquin served as Chairman of the Quality Committee of LEEM. He joined Sanofi-Synthelabo in 2001 as Head of Industrial Quality and Compliance. In 2004, he took the lead of Global Quality Industrial Operations for sanofi-aventis.