Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen

Executive vice president and chief science officer (CSO)

Executive vice president and chief science officer (CSO)

Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen joined Novo Nordisk in 1991. He has been head of Growth Hormone Research, Diabetes R&D, Global Drug Discovery, and in November 2000 he was appointed executive vice president and chief science officer. In this role, he is responsible for global research, development and regulatory affairs within Novo Nordisk.

Professor Thomsen has chaired Danish Research Council programmes within endocrinology, served as President of the National Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV), Denmark and has been a board member of the Danish Technical University (DTU). Today, he serves on the board of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also a member of the editorial boards of international, peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Thomsen has a DVM from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (now the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen), Denmark, from 1986, where he also obtained a PhD in 1989 and a DSc in 1991, and has served as adjunct professor of pharmacology since 2000.

Professor Thomsen is a Danish national, born December 1960.