Christian-Claus Roth, Vice President IPCAA

Christian-Claus Roth has been employed at Novartis Pharma since 2001, in different roles of increasing responsibility. After his studies in Business Administration he started his career with the International Pharmaceutical wholesaler GEHE Pharma Handel GmbH and later Celesio AG, in Germany.

 From there he moved to the Novartis Pharma affiliate in Berne, Switzerland, where he set up the congress & event department for the Swiss market, shortly later being promoted to the Global Headquarter in Basel with responsibility for the Pain and Urology Areas as International Congress Manager, with additional responsibility later for the Bone area.

After his appointment as Deputy Head of the Congress & Conventions Department he was seconded to the Global Congress & Event Initiative, tasked at looking into new ways of managing and sourcing congress and event activities on a global level and leading the marketing implementation side.

Christian now oversees the strategic global Congress & Conventions team focusing on the impact of external regulatory requirements on global medical event management – one of several key areas for which the team is responsible. Additionally he is a Meeting Advisory Board member of one of the largest hotel companies and regularly participates as a panel member and speaker at conferences.