Elias Zerhouni

Elias Zerhouni served as the President of Global Research and Development and as a member of the Executive Committee for Sanofi from January 2011 to July 2018.

His academic career was spent at the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital where he was a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering and Senior Adviser for Johns Hopkins Medicine. Elias served as Chair of the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vice Dean for Research, and Executive Vice Dean of the School of Medicine from 1996 to 2002 before serving as Director of the National Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2008. In that position, Elias oversaw the NIH’s 27 Institutes and Centers with more than 18,000 employees and a budget of $29.5 billion (2008).

In November 2009, President Barack Obama appointed him as one of the first presidential U.S. science envoys. Elias also served as a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 2009 to 2010 and as senior adviser to the CEO of Sanofi.