Najat Khan, Phd, Chief Data Science Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Head, Strategy and Operations, R&D, Johnson & Johnson

Najat Khan’s path to power

With a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, Khan’s experience and accomplishments cover a confluence of three areas: biological and medical science; computational and data science (AI/Machine Learning), and business leadership, strategy and operations in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.  

Throughout the past five years, Khan has developed her career within Janssen, where she currently leads two divisions: 1. chief data science officer and 2. senior vice president/global head, strategy and operations, R&D. In these leadership roles, Khan is responsible for overseeing the strategy, pipeline and portfolio optimization and investment, and for fully integrating data science and digital health end-to-end across the pharmaceutical pipeline to drive transformational innovation for patients.