Andrew Philip Witty
Director
pharmaceutical sciences
United Health Group
Germany
Biography
Andrew Philip Witty serves as Independent Director of the Company. Sir Andrew Witty was CEO and a board member of GlaxoSmithKline plc, a global pharmaceutical company, from 2008 to April, 2017. He joined GSK in 1985 and, prior to 2008, served in various senior roles in Europe, South Africa, the U.S. and Asia. Witty is Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, a British public research university, and has served in that capacity since January 2013. He is a Business Ambassador for the U.K. Prime Minister. Witty serves on the Singapore Economic Development Board International Advisory Committee, the Council at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and as an Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Witty was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to the economy and the U.K. pharmaceutical industry. He also serves on the board of G1 Therapeutics, Inc.
Research Interest
pharmaceutical sciences business and administration
