Jorma Routti
Board Member
Board of Directors
Fibrogen
China
Biography
Jorma Routti, Ph.D. has served on our board of directors since March 1994. He is also the Chairman of the board of directors of our subsidiary, FibroGen Europe Oy, and has served in that capacity since 2001. Since 2001, Dr. Routti has served as Executive Chairman of CIM Creative Industries Management Ltd., a venture capital firm located in Helsinki, Finland, where he works with investments and research in intellectual property oriented companies as well as with Knowledge Economy developments in several countries. Dr. Routti served, from 1995 to 2000, as Director General of Research of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union. From 1985 to 1995, Dr. Routti served as President of SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund. Dr. Routti served as Dean and Professor at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1972 to 1985, as a scientist at CERN in Geneva from 1967 to 1972, and at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the boards of directors (including as chairman) of several major corporations, high technology companies, and international research establishments. Dr. Routti has received numerous honors including Fulbright and Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships and decorations in Finland and France. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from U.C. Berkeley as well as an M.Sc. in technical physics and a Dr.Techn h.c. in technology from the Helsinki University of Technology. Dr. Routti was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Research Interest
Business Management, Economics
