Novo Nordisk CEO and leadership

Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen joined Novo Nordisk in 1991 as an economist in Health Care, Economy & Planning and has over the years completed overseas postings in the Netherlands, the US and Japan. In 2004 he was appointed senior vice president for IT & Corporate Development. In January 2013 he was appointed executive vice president and chief information officer assuming responsibility for IT, Quality & Corporate Development. In November 2014 he took over the responsibilities for Corporate People & Organisation and Business Assurance and became chief of staff. Mr Jørgensen was appointed president and chief executive officer in January 2017.

Mr Jørgensen serves as vice-chair of the supervisory board and member of the nomination committee of Carlsberg A/S.

Mr Jørgensen has an MSc in Finance and Business Administration from Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark, from 1991.

Mr Jørgensen is a Danish national, born November 1966.

Karsten Munk Knudsen joined Novo Nordisk in 1999 as a business analyst in NNIT A/S, previously a subsidiary of Novo Nordisk, and has since held finance positions of growing size and complexity throughout the Novo Nordisk value chain. From 2010 to 2014 Mr Knudsen was corporate vice president for Finance & IT at Novo Nordisk Inc. in the US and in 2014 he was appointed senior vice president of Corporate Finance in Novo Nordisk. In February 2018 Mr Knudsen was promoted to executive vice president and chief financial officer. In April 2019 Mr Knudsen assumed further responsibilities as his area was expanded to cover Finance, Legal & Procurement.

Mr Knudsen serves as chair of the board of NNE A/S, Denmark.

My team and I identify creative, innovative and differentiated science, technology platforms and compounds, build productive collaborations based on mutual respect and trust and also bring strategically relevant external innovation into Novo Nordisk’s R&D organisation- for the benefit of people with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and NASH