Takeda CEO sees workforce shifting to emerging countries

Christophe Weber calls Takeda 'a tech biopharmaceutical company'

20211110 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company President and CEO Christophe Weber INTERVIEW

Takeda Pharmaceutical CEO Christophe Weber says a lot of demand is coming from the 6 billion people who live in emerging countries. (Photo by Yoichi Iwata) 

MITSURU OBE, Nikkei Asia chief business news correspondent

TOKYO -- More than half of Takeda Pharmaceutical's employees will work in emerging markets a decade from now as Japan's largest drugmaker accelerates its globalization under French CEO Christophe Weber.

"In five or 10 years," Weber said in an interview on the sidelines of the Nikkei Global Management Forum, "the majority of our employees will be in emerging countries."

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