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Panel Speakers
Thomas Osburg – Director Europe Corporate Affairs, Intel Corp
Dr. Thomas Osburg is Director Europe - Corporate Affairs for Intel Corp., responsible for the Strategic Design
and Implementation of Intel’s CSR programs in Europe. Thomas and his team are working closely with
National Governments, Ministries, NGO’s, NPO´s and the European Union.
Thomas holds a Ph. D. (Dr.rer.pol.) degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Leibniz
University of Hannover (Germany). After his graduation, he held several Management positions in the area
of International Management and Marketing, CSR, Education and Research at Texas Instruments, Autodesk
and Intel, living in France, the U.S. and Germany. Until 2005, Thomas was Director Education at Texas Instruments
for the Pacific Markets and thus managing the expansion of CSR and Educational programs into
China, Korea, Japan, Australia and South America.
In January 2009, Thomas got elected as Speaker for the influential German CSR Organization “UPJ”, since
November 2009 he is also Research Fellow of the Center for Corporate Citizenship, lead by Prof. Dr. André
Habisch at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He is engaged in several committees and elected
member of boards, such as foundations and Public Private Partnerships and a reviewer of Scientific Papers,
i.e. for the European Marketing Academy, on Management, Marketing and CSR topics.
Jean-Pierre Paccaud – Business Development, DNDi
Jean-Pierre Paccaud is a member of the executive team of DNDi since 2007. He is
responsible for the business development activities of the foundation, including opportunity
identification, contract structure and negotiations, IP and alliance management.
In 2002, he founded and led Athelas SA, a startup company active in the field of anti-bacterial drug discovery,
until its merger with Merlion Pharmaceuticals in 2006.
Before taking on entrepreneurial challenges in industry, Dr. Paccaud spent more than 18 years in academia,
working in immunology, diabetes, and cell biology, and was tenured at the University of Geneva
School of Medicine.
Trained as a molecular and cellular biologist, Jean-Pierre Paccaud completed his post-doctoral studies at
the University of California at Berkeley, and earned his PhD at the University of Geneva School of Medicine.
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