Ann Cairns, currently president of MasterCard’s international operations, is to join the board of AstraZeneca Plc as a non-executive director. She will be appointed to the audit committee.
Before joining MasterCard in 2011, Ms Cairns was in charge of the
European liquidation of Lehman Brothers Holdings International. Before this, she was the chief executive of transaction banking at ABN AMRO. Ms Cairns holds a BSc in pure mathematics from Sheffield University and an MSc with research into medical statistics from Newcastle University in the UK.
AstraZeneca announced the appointment on 20 March 2014.
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