Dame Louise Makin
Non-Executive Director
Healthcare
Intertek
Spain
Biography
Appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in July 2012. Dame Louise Makin is currently Chief Executive Officer of BTG plc, a growing international specialist healthcare company, a position she has held since 2004. Before joining BTG, Louise was at Baxter Healthcare from 2000, holding the roles of Vice President, Strategy & Business Development Europe, and from 2001, President of the Biopharmaceuticals division of Baxter Healthcare, where she was responsible for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Prior to her time at Baxter, she was Director of Global Ceramics at English China Clay, and in her earlier career, held a variety of roles at ICI between 1985 and 1998. Louise is a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust, an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge, and a Non-Executive Director of Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc. She was previously a Non-Executive Director of Premier Foods plc.
Research Interest
Appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in July 2012. Dame Louise Makin is currently Chief Executive Officer of BTG plc, a growing international specialist healthcare company, a position she has held since 2004. Before joining BTG, Louise was at Baxter Healthcare from 2000, holding the roles of Vice President, Strategy & Business Development Europe, and from 2001, President of the Biopharmaceuticals division of Baxter Healthcare, where she was responsible for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Prior to her time at Baxter, she was Director of Global Ceramics at English China Clay, and in her earlier career, held a variety of roles at ICI between 1985 and 1998. Louise is a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust, an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge, and a Non-Executive Director of Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc. She was previously a Non-Executive Director of Premier Foods plc.
