Franck Leveiller

Franck Leveiller is Senior Vice President, Head Global R&D, and Chief Scientific Officer for Alcon. Mr. Leveiller joined Alcon in June 2011 as VP and Head of R&D Vision Care, and in June 2015 assumed the role of Head, R&D Surgical Franchise at Alcon. Before joining Alcon, Mr. Leveiller was the Global Head of R&D at Ciba Vision, after two years with Novartis Pharmaceuticals as Global Head Technical R&D, Project Management. Prior to Novartis, he held R&D positions with pharmaceutical companies, such as AstraZeneca, Aventis and Rhône-Poulenc Rorer.

Franck has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, where he was awarded the John F. Kennedy Memorial prize for outstanding Ph.D. research work.