Ipsen announced the appointment of Catherine Abi-Habib as EVP Strategy, Transformation, and Digital, effective March 1st, 2022. Based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, she will be reporting directly to David Loew, CEO, Ipsen, and serve on the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). She is replacing Dominique Bery, who after successfully leading the Strategy, Transformation and Digital teams, will move to a new position within Ipsen as head of Nordics & Baltics.

Catherine brings more than 10 years of experience working with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, medical device manufacturers, health systems, payors, providers, and charitable foundations. She joins Ipsen from McKinsey, where she was a Partner in the Life Sciences Practice based in London, focused on transforming company performance, including reshaping strategy, refining the operating model, defining and implementing commercial approaches, optimizing spend, and identifying opportunities for growth. Working closely with QuantumBlack, McKinsey's Advanced Analytics firm, she has partnered with leading biopharma companies on large-scale digital and analytics driven transformations across North America, Europe and Asia, focused on improving physician experience.

Catherine speaks Arabic, English, French, and Italian and holds an MSc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, Trinity College.