Tagged with MENA

UAE Ayman Mokhtar is the general manager (GM) of GCC, Iraq and Iran for Upjohn, a Pfizer division. He spoke to us about his professional journey and Upjohn’s efforts to establish strategic public-private partnerships with actors including the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) for a Centre of Excellence for Real…

Morocco Multinational pharmaceutical companies are increasingly seeing Morocco as a top manufacturing destination for the African continent. Firms from Europe, Asia-Pacific and the US are investing millions of dollars in bolstering and expanding their drug production facilities in the North African nation thanks to its strategic location, price-competitiveness, and comparatively developed…

Morocco Ensuring the country’s “sanitary sovereignty” has long been a key policy for Morocco and its government. In order to encourage the local production of drugs, Law 17-04 was promulgated in 2006 requiring pharma companies to operate a manufacturing, control and storage site in order to apply for marketing authorization.  …

Morocco Layla Sentissi, executive director of AMIP, Morocco’s oldest pharma association, explains the structure of the country’s pharmaceutical industry and its key developments, lays down her ambition to create a National Pact for Medicines, discusses the key challenges for the local industry, and invites global decision-makers of to the Africa Health…

UAE NewBridge Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharma company with Dubai as its regional headquarters for the MENA region, is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2020. President and CEO Joe Henein discusses the company’s journey to becoming the partner of choice for US and European companies looking to bring their innovative products to…

UAE When the photographic film industry faced a crisis in the early 2000s, market leader Kodak began to struggle and was obliged to make an existential decision. In 2010, worldwide demand for photographic film had fallen to less than a tenth of what it had been only ten years before. Two…

UAE With a combined experience of over five decades in the pharmaceutical industry including senior executive roles at companies such as Merck and Janssen, Karim Smaira and Kamel Ghammachi have come a long way with Genpharm, the Dubai-based market access company they founded in 2012. After years of learning the ins…

UAE Georg Schroeckenfuchs, Novartis’ president for the Middle East and head of MEA cluster, is a 32-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry and describes the company’s footprint within the MEA region, provides insights into its strategy of segmenting their markets into three categories. Furthermore, he discusses the company’s strategic priorities when…

Morocco The top 10 pharma companies in Morocco ranked by sales value for Q4 2018. French giant Sanofi takes top spot, followed by local players Cooper and Bottu SA. Made with Visme Infographic Maker

UAE In some respects, is it perhaps the medtech sector that has most to be excited about in the UAE’s domestic market, given the country’s unrelenting enthusiasm for connected devices, the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital solutions. According to a recent study carried out by INSEAD in conjunction with the…

UAE The UAE’s distinctive willingness to embrace innovation and the ‘can-do’ spirit of authorities marks the country out as worthy of attention as an initial product launch platform.   “Along with fellow GCC members, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the UAE is notable for its accelerated regulatory pathways. Due to these mechanisms,…

UAE From Turkey to Tajikistan, Bangladesh to Bahrain, and Russia to Rwanda, multinational pharma firms are increasingly situating wide-ranging management responsibilities in the UAE. The following is an inexhaustive list of some of the widely varying geographies being managed from the UAE, as well as insights from the executives overseeing them.…