Yasuchika Hasegawa
Yasuchika Hasegawa
Honorary Chairman, Asia Pacific Group, The Trilateral Commission; former Chairman, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; former Chairman, Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), Tokyo
Yasuchika Hasegawa has been with the Takeda Pharmaceutical 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, Chairman in 2014, and Corporate Counselor in 2017. Mr. Hasegawa was also Chairman of the Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) from 2011 to April 2015, and a member of the Abe government’s Industrial Competitiveness Council since 2013. He graduated from Waseda University.
