German, age 68

FUNCTION AT NOVARTIS AG Since 1996 Birgit Breuel has served as a Member of the Board. In 1999, she became a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee. She qualifies as an independent, Non-Executive Director.

ACTIVITIES IN GOVERNING OR SUPERVISORY BODIES Birgit Breuel is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Gruner+Jahr AG*, Hamburg, Germany, of WWF, Germany, and of HGV (Hamburger Gesellschaft für Vermögens- und Beteiligungsverwaltung mbH), Germany.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Birgit Breuel studied politics at the Universities of Hamburg, Oxford and Geneva. She was Minister of Economy and Transport (1978–1986) and Minister of Finance (1986–1990) of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), the second largest state of Germany. In 1990, Birgit Breuel was elected to the Executive Board of the Treuhandanstalt, which was responsible for the privatization of the former East Germany’s economy; in 1991, she also became the President of the Treuhandanstalt. From 1995 to 2000, she acted as the General Commissioner and CEO of the world exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hanover, Germany.

Swiss, age 67

FUNCTION AT NOVARTIS AG Peter Burckhardt has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1996. He qualifies as an independent, Non-Executive Director.

ACTIVITIES IN GOVERNING OR SUPERVISORY BODIES From 1982 to 2004 Peter Burckhardt has been the Chairman of the Novartis (formerly Sandoz) Foundation for Biomedical Research in Switzerland.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND After studying in Basel and Hamburg, Peter Burckhardt graduated with an M.D. from the University of Basel in 1965. He trained from 1966 to 1978 in internal medicine and endocrinology, mainly at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, US. Peter Burckhardt was appointed Chief of Clinical Endocrinology in 1978, and full Professor of Internal Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Lausanne in 1982. In addition to his activities as a clinician and academic teacher, Peter Burckhardt conducts clinical research, mainly in bone diseases and calcium metabolism. He has authored more than 300 scientific publications and is an editorial board member of several international scientific journals. He was president of the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, a member of the appeal committee of the national agency for drug controls and a board member of numerous scientific societies including the Swiss Societies of Nutrition, Clinical Chemistry, Endocrinology, Bone and Mineral Research, and the Committee for Endocrinology of the European Community.

PERMANENT MANAGEMENT OR CONSULTANCY ENGAGEMENTS Since 1982, Peter Burckhardt has been the Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Lausanne, then chief of medical service A, until 2004. He is treasurer of the International Foundation of Osteoporosis. Since 1990, he has been the organizer and chairman of the International Symposia on Nutrition and Osteoporosis.

American, age 52

FUNCTION AT NOVARTIS AG Srikant Datar became a member of the Board in 2003. He is a Non-Executive Director.

ACTIVITIES IN GOVERNING OR SUPERVISORY BODIES Srikant Datar is a member of the Board of Voyan Technology Inc., Santa Clara, California, and of Harvard Business School Interactive, Boston, Massachusetts.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND In 1973 Professor Srikant Datar graduated with distinction in mathematics and economics at the University of Bombay. He is Chartered Accountant and holds two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Professor Datar has worked as an accountant and planner in industry and as a Professor at the Universities of Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Harvard in the US. He currently holds the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professorship at Harvard University. His research interests are in the areas of cost management, measurement of productivity, new product development, time-based competition, incentives and performance evaluation. He is the author of many scientific publications and has received several academic awards and honors. Srikant Datar has advised and worked with numerous renowned firms such as Du Pont, General Motors and Mellon Bank in research, development and training.

PERMANENT MANAGEMENT OR CONSULTANCY ENGAGEMENTS Srikant Datar is Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education at the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.