List of Board Members

As of December 01, 2025

Chairman Asuka Miyabashira (President, Japan Pharma Business Unit, TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED)
Vice Chairman Osamu Okuda(President and CEO, CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.)
Kenji Yasukawa(Chairman, Astellas Pharma Inc.)
Keisuke Naito (Representative Executive Officer and Senior Managing COO, Eisai Co., Ltd.)
Isao Teshirogi (Chairman, President & CEO, SHIONOGI & CO., LTD.)
Toru Kimura (President, Sumitomo Pharma CO., LTD.)
Sunao Manabe (Chairman, DAIICHI SANKYO CO., LTD.)
Executive Board Members Takafumi Horii (President, AstraZeneca K.K.)
Hiromichi Shirasawa (Chairman, Head of Global Research & Development, MSD K.K.)
Yoshirou Matsuo (Vice President, OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL Co., Ltd.)
Yasuo Takehana (President, KISSEI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.)
Masashi Miyamoto (Chairman and CEO, Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd.)
Paul Lirette (President, GlaxoSmithKline K.K.)
Takahiko Iwaya (President, Sanofi K.K.)
Akihisa Harada (Representative Director, CEO, Tanabe Pharma Corporation)
Hiroo Igarashi (President, Pfizer JAPAN INC.)
Board of Directors Yoshikazu Aoki (President, ASAHI KASEI PHARMA CORPORATION)
Hiroyuki Horiuchi (President, KAKEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.)
Yutaka Ogihara (President and CEO, KYORIN Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd.)
Yoshihiro Miwa (Chairman and President, Kowa Company, Ltd.)
Takeshi Ito (President and CEO, SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.)
Shigeru Uehara (President, TAISHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.)
Masayuki Kobayashi (President, TAIHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.)
Masaki Taneda (President, TEIJIN PHARMA Limited)
Nobumasa Kondo (President, TORII PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.)
Simone Thomsen (President, Eli Lilly Japan K.K.)
Toru Nakai (President, NIPPON SHINYAKU Co., Ltd.)
Masataka Ogimura (President, Pharmaceutical Business Unit, NIPPON BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM CO., LTD.)
John Paul Pullicino (President, NOVARTIS PHARMA K.K.)
Ashraf Al-Ouf (President, BAYER YAKUHIN, LTD.)
Kazuhide Nakatomi (President, Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co.,Inc.)
Hidehito Katsuma (President, Bristol-Myers Squibb K.K.)
Daikichiro Kobayashi (Chairman, Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd.)
Naoyuki Mochida (President, MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.)
Christopher Rieger (President, JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICAL K.K.)
Auditors Sohta Yamaguchi (President, ASKA Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd.)
Mitsuhiro Ibe (President and COO, ZERIA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.)
Director General Kenshi Kinoshita
Senior Managing Director Yasunori Yoshida
Managing Director Sachiko Nakagawa
Yoshiyuki Ishida

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