Change in Lundbeck Foundation's leadership team
Lundbeck Foundation’s Director of Public Affairs, Communication, Sustainability, and Strategy, Inge Berneke, is leaving the foundation. A process has been initiated to realign the organisation.
Inge Berneke - SVP Corporate Affairs, Lundbeck Foundation.
After five years at Lundbeck Foundation, Inge Berneke, SVP Corporate Affairs, has decided to seek new challenges outside the foundation. She will be leaving Lundbeck Foundation at the end of August 2024.
Inge Berneke joined Lundbeck Foundation in 2019 in a newly created position and has, over the past five years, supported CEO Lene Skole in formulating and executing the foundation’s 2030 strategy and developing the organisation.
As part of the foundation's leadership team, Inge has been responsible for several key functions, including public affairs, communication, sustainability, strategy, and HR. Furthermore, she has in parallel managed important tasks related to the foundation’s portfolio companies.
“Inge has played a crucial role in Lundbeck Foundation’s development over the past five years and has been a key figure in the leadership team. I have greatly valued working with her and am therefore saddened that we must now say goodbye. Fortunately, during Inge’s tenure, we have significantly developed the organisation and brought on new talent to continue the good work,” says Lene Skole, continuing:
“The foundation has high ambitions and aims to act openly and in close collaboration with our surroundings. This calls for ongoing adjustments to our organisation, and we will be launching new initiatives throughout 2024 and beyond that align with our strategy and activities. In this process, we will miss Inge’s engagement and contributions to the leadership, but I respect her decision and wish her all the best for the future.”
A process has been initiated to realign the organisation and find the right successor for Inge. Over the summer, she will assist in completing and transferring a number of ongoing tasks and projects before her departure at the latest by the end of August.
The Lundbeck Foundation is an enterprise foundation encompassing a comprehensive range of enterprise and philanthropic activities – all united by its strong purpose, ‘Bringing Discoveries to Lives’. The Foundation is the long-term, engaged and significant owner of several international healthcare companies – Lundbeck, Falck, ALK, Ferrosan Medical Devices, Ellab and WS Audiology – and an active investor in business, science and people through its commercial investments in the financial markets, in biotech companies based on Danish research, and through philanthropic grants to science talents and programmes in Danish universities. The Foundation’s philanthropic grants amount to more than DKK 500m annually primarily focusing on the brain – including the world’s largest award for neuroscience, The Brain Prize.
