Mr Doustdar joined Novo Nordisk in 1992 as an office clerk in Vienna, Austria. From 1993 through 2007 he took up various positions in finance, IT, logistics, operations and marketing, within various parts of Novo Nordisk’s emerging markets, first in Vienna and subsequently in Athens and Zurich before he was appointed general manager of Novo Nordisk Near East, based in Turkey, in 2007.
In 2010 Mr Doustdar was promoted to vice president of Business
Area Near East and in 2012 he re-located to Malaysia to head the
Business Area Oceania South East Asia. In 2013 he was promoted to
senior vice president of Novo Nordisk’s International Operations, and
in April 2015 Mr Doustdar was promoted to executive vice president,
continuing his responsibility for Novo Nordisk’s International
Operations.
In September 2016 Mike Doustdar assumed additional geographical responsibility and was promoted to executive vice president for an expanded International Operations, leading all commercial units globally, except for USA and Canada.
(Not registered as an executive of Novo Nordisk A/S with the Danish Business Authority)
Mr Doustdar serves as a member of the board of directors of Orion Corporation.
- 1994: BA in International Business, Webster University, Vienna, Austria.
Mr Doustdar is both an Austrian and Iranian national, born August 1970.
