Yasuchika Hasegawa is Chairman
of the Board of Takeda
Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. He
has been with the company since
1970, including three years in
Germany and ten years in the United States as Vice President
and then President of TAP
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Chicago.
He joined Takeda's Board of
Directors in 1999, became
President in 2003, Chief Executive
Officer in 2009, and Chairman in
2014. Mr. Hasegawa was also
Chairman of the Keizai Doyukai
(Japan Association of Corporate
Executives) from 2011 to 2015,
and a member of the Abe
government's Industrial
Competitiveness Council since
2013. He graduated from Waseda
University.