Director General, EFPIA
Richard Bergstrom is a pharmacist by training. He received his MScPharm degree from the University of Uppsala, Sweden in 1988. Until 1992 he worked at the Medical Products Agency as Assistant Head of Registration. He moved to Switzerland where he worked for nine years in regulatory affairs at Roche and Novartis. Before returning to Sweden in 2002, he was Director, EU Regulatory Strategy at Roche Basel. For nine years he was Director-General of LIF, the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry. During this time he was member of the Board of EFPIA and the Council of IFPMA, the international association based in Geneva. In Sweden he had several government appointments, incl. as vice chairman of the Board of the Karolinska Institute. He also served on the Board of IMM, the Swedish Institute against Corruption. Since 2006 he is an advisor to the WHO on Good Governance in Medicine. Since April 2011 he is Director General of EFPIA, the European association for the research-based industry.