Senior Career Planning and

Alastair West is a senior technical advisor for UNIDO s pharmaceutical team. He holds a Bachelor s in Biochemistry from Oxford University and a MBA from IMD in Switzerland. He worked in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries for the first eight tears of his career. After his MBA he joined the World Bank as part of the vaccine team in Washington DC and later worked for the International Finance Corporation as Industry Expert for Life Sciences in the General Services and Manufacturing Division. He has been with UNIDO for six years and has worked on a number of pharmaceutical industry pro j ects in Africa. As part of this work he co-authored the Business Plan for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa (2012). 

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