Executive Management
Executive vice president and chief science officer (CSO)
Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen joined Novo Nordisk in 1991. He was appointed CSO in November 2000. He sits on the editorial boards of international journals and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Technical University of Denmark. He is also a non-executive director of the Board of Cellartis AB, Sweden.
Dr Thomsen has a DVM from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (now the University of Copenhagen), Denmark, from 1986, where he also obtained a PhD degree in 1989 and a DSc in 1991, and became adjunct professor of pharmacology in 2000. He is a former president of the National Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV), Denmark.
Dr Thomsen is a Danish national, born on 27 December 1960.
