Our leadership

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Our leadership, which includes our Board of Directors and Senior Executive Team, is accountable to our shareholders for the responsible conduct of the business and our long-term success. It also represents the interests of all our stakeholders in ensuring that we deliver for patients by putting science at the heart of everything we do.




Board of Directors

Our Directors are collectively responsible for the success of AstraZeneca. In addition, the Non-Executive Directors are responsible for exercising independent and objective judgement and for scrutinising and challenging management. The Board is responsible for setting our strategy and policies, oversight of risk and corporate governance and monitoring progress towards meeting our annual plans. It is accountable to our shareholders for the proper conduct of the business and our long-term success and represents the interests of all stakeholders. The Board has delegated some of its powers to five principal committees and the CEO. Members of the Board and their biographies are shown below.


Michel Demaré

Non-Executive Chair of the Board

Member of the Board since September 2019 and Chair since April 2023.

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Pascal Soriot

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer

Member of the Board and CEO since October 2012.

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Aradhana Sarin

Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer

Member of the Board and CFO since August 2021.

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Philip Broadley

Senior independent Non-Executive Director

Member of the Board since April 2017 and Senior independent Non-Executive Director since March 2021.

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Euan Ashley

Non-Executive Director
 

Member of the Board since
October 2020.
 

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Birgit Conix

Non-Executive Director
 

Member of the Board since
February 2025
 

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Deborah DiSanzo

Non-Executive Director
 

Member of the Board since
December 2017.
 

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Rene Haas

Non-Executive Director

Member of the Board since
January 2025.

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Diana Layfield

Non-Executive Director

Member of the Board since
November 2020.

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Anna Manz

Non-Executive Director

Member of the Board since
September 2023.

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Sheri McCoy

Non-Executive Director

Member of the Board since
October 2017.

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Tony Mok

Non-Executive Director

Member of the Board since
January 2019.

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