Roland Göhde

Member of the transitional High-Level Council

Co-Founder & CEO of the non-for-profit Virchow Foundation, Senior Managing Director of German diagnostics and biotechnology company Sysmex Partec, The Chair of the Board of GHA

Roland Göhde is Co-Founder & CEO of the non-for-profit Virchow Foundation for Global Health which has been established in 2021 together with the Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as well as the Founding President of the World Health Summit.

The Foundation is granting the Virchow Prize for Global Health with its inaugural award ceremony held in October 2022 under High Patronage of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Since 2014, Roland Göhde is acting as Senior Managing Director of German diagnostics and biotechnology company Sysmex Partec and as Chair of the Board of GHA – German Health Alliance, former German Healthcare Partnership (GHP), an initiative which has been jointly established in 2010 by the German government and the Federation of German Industries (BDI).

In addition to a number of other awards, Roland Göhde received the Innovation Award of the Free State of Saxony in 2003 and the IQ Innovation Award of Central Germany in 2007. As part of the "1st German Congress of World Market Leaders" in Schwäbisch Hall, he received the Young Entrepreneurs Award in 2011, which then had been granted for the first time by Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG. In 2019, the "biosaxony award" was presented to Göhde for his engagement and merits to the biotechnology sector in the Free State of Saxony.