Vice-Chairman
Mr. Sørensen became Chairman of Ferring’s Board of Directors in July 2021, and was appointed Vice-Chairman in June 2023 when Jean-Frédéric Paulsen assumed the role of Executive Chairman. He has more than 30 years’ management experience in the pharmaceutical industry, and was President and CEO of Novo Nordisk A/S from 2000 until 2016. He is Chair of the Board of the Novo Nordisk Foundation and Novo Holdings A/S, a Board member of Thermo Fischer Scientific Inc. (US), Essity AB (Sweden) and Jungbunzlauer Suisse AG (Switzerland), and Chair of the Advisory Board of Axcel Management A/S (Denmark). Mr. Sørensen serves as a Post-doctoral Lecturer in the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen, and in the Center for Corporate Governance at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
