Louise Duerr

Born in London, completed studies with PhD in Pharmacology (Physiological Pharmacokinetics) at the University of Basel and Novartis. Fluent in English, German and French, Louise spent the first part of her career in clinical development roles at the headquarters of Serono, as Clinical Director at Medtronic HQ and at Roche Pharma, Basel in Clinical Oncology.

In 2010 Louise built the Life Sciences Executive Search and Recruitment Practice as Managing Partner in Basel with a broad focus within Manufacturing, MS&T and Quality roles in Biotech, Pharma and Diagnostics in addition to extensive placements in senior Medical, Clinical, Market Access and Commercial roles within Oncology and Rare Diseases for the Pharma and Medical Device sector.
Louise joined as the first Partner for the Healthcare Life Sciences Practice of Page Executive in 2019 in Zürich and contributed to building the brand at European level.

Louise joined Chaberton Partners as Director of the Healthcare Life Sciences DACH in June 2021 and leverages her 25 years’ experience in the Life Sciences market. Passionate about new technologies, Louise is also increasingly involved in contributing to transformation digital projects within R&D as well in the commercial space EMEA.