Dr. Sarkozy is currently a Managing Partner of AEC Partners, a Paris-based healthcare consultancy, and is the brother of France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Dr. Sarkozy, age 46, has served as a Managing Partner at AEC Partners since 2001, where his assignments have included international medical and marketing strategy, project and resource management, business development and negotiation analysis, commercialisation of new products and change management in mergers and reorganizations. Previously, during the period 1990-2000, he was Medical Director, France, for Aventis Pharma; Medical & Pharmaceutical Director, France, for Hoechst Marion Roussel, where he was also Vice President and Head of Global Portfolio & Project Management, the latter position including three years in the U.S.; earlier, he held various positions with Roussel-Uclaf, including International Development Director, International Clinical Development Head, and International Product Manager for Antibiotics. From 1983 to 1990, he was an Assistant in the Respiratory Physiology Department of the Paris Public Hospital Authority, where he also did his internship (Interne des Hopitaux de Paris) in pediatrics. He holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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