IN BRIEF: AstraZeneca Chair Leif Johansson to retire at 2023 AGM
22nd Feb 2022 14:20
AstraZeneca PLC - Cambridge, England-based pharmaceutical firm - Non-Executive Chair Leif Johansson will retire at Astra's annual general meeting in 2023. It will hold its AGM this year on April 29, and Johansson will stand for election for one more year. Johansson joined the Astra board in 2012, so he reached the normal term limit of nine years last year. However, he was asked to stay on to oversee Astra's acquisition of the US's Alexion Pharmaceuticals, which is now completed. Senior Independent Non-Executive Director Philip Broadley is leading the search for a new chair. Read More