John Young is a global healthcare leader whose 35-year career at Pfizer included a decade on the company’s Executive Leadership Team. He served as Global President of Primary Care and the Pfizer Essential Health business unit and, beginning in 2019, as Chief Business Officer. In 2020, he chaired Pfizer’s COVID SWAT Team.

John began his career with Pfizer as a trainee in his native Scotland in 1987, progressing through sales, marketing, and general management roles before becoming Regional President for Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in 2009.

John currently serves on the boards of Novartis AG and Johnson Controls International. He previously served on the UK Government’s Life Sciences Council and the boards of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO).

John holds a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Glasgow and an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School.