The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7311 p178
7 August 2004

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New chief at the ABPI

Trevor Jones's successor as director-general of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry will be Richard Barker.

Dr Barker is currently president of New Medicine Partners, an advisory firm that helps pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with strategy, product development and commercialisation. He is also chairman of Molecular Staging, a genomics and proteomics company, and a board member of Exact Sciences, which applies genomics to colon cancer screening.

He has previously been chief executive of Chiron’s diagnostics division, general manager of IBM’s worldwide health care business and leader of McKinsey’s European health care practice.

Dr Jones retires on 31 August.