As­traZeneca CEO Pas­cal So­ri­ot: 'I'm the low­est-paid CEO in the whole in­dus­try'

As­traZeneca CEO Pas­cal So­ri­ot en­joys the rep­u­ta­tion of a scrap­py ex­ec­u­tive who grew up in a not-so-gen­teel neigh­bor­hood in Paris. And he’s not so averse these days to us­ing a sharp el­bowed ap­proach to dis­cussing his point­ed thoughts on sen­si­tive sub­jects.

Af­ter turn­ing heads with his thoughts about Brex­it’s im­pact on UK drug sup­plies and the po­ten­tial for short­ages to de­vel­op, he held forth for 45 min­utes with a re­porter from The Times. And he was ex­tra­or­di­nar­i­ly forth­com­ing, moan­ing about how lit­tle he and fel­low Lon­don-based phar­ma CEO Em­ma Walm­s­ley at GSK get paid rel­a­tive to their peers.

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