Michel Demaré is Member of the Board of AstraZeneca since September 2019 and Chair since April 2023.

He is also Chair of the Nomination and Governance Committee and member of the Remuneration Committee.

Michel was previously Vice-Chairman of UBS Group AG (2010 to 2019), Chairman of Syngenta and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (2013 to 2017) and Chairman of SwissHoldings (2013 to 2015). Between 2005 and 2013, Michel was CFO of ABB Ltd and also acting interim CEO during 2008. He joined ABB from Baxter International Inc., where he was CFO Europe from 2002 to 2005. Prior to that, he spent 18 years at The Dow Chemical Company, in several international finance functions, including the CFO of Dow’s Global Polyolefins and Elastomers division between 1997 and 2002. He began his career as a banking officer at Continental Illinois’ Belgian subsidiary. Michel graduated with an MBA from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and holds a degree in applied economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Michel is a Non-Executive Director of Vodafone Group Plc and Louis Dreyfus Int’l Holdings BV, Chairman of IMD Business School and Chairman of Nomoko AG.