Medicines Patent Pool Adds Four Board Members
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Executive Summary
The Medicines Patent Pool has appointed four new board members; Claudia Chamas, Michel Manon, Brian Tempest and Jayashree Watal. Chamas is a senior researcher at Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and has served as representative of the Ministry of Health at the Brazilian Interministerial Group on Intellectual Property and as vice-chair of the WHO Consultative Expert Working Group on research and development (CEWG). Manon, former director for Bristol-Myers Squibb, held various other senior roles at the company including medical director. Tempest was previously at Ranbaxy where he was CEO, managing director and regional director-Far East and regional-director-Middle East & Africa for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Currently Tempest is advisor to the United Nations Conference on trade and development and holds non-executive director status in various Indian healthcare and pharma companies. Watal is currently counsellor in the intellectual property division of the Word Trade Organization and has over 22 years' experience in the Indian government working on policy, diplomacy, research and IP rights issue.