The 3rd Annual Pharmaceutical Leadership Summit will be held on June 25 and 26, 2010 in Mumbai. The two-day pharma summit is being organised by the Pharma Leaders & Indo-American Chamber of Commerce. Union minister of state for chemicals & fertilizers Srikant Jena, Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, state FDA Minister MR Naik, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan, and Sanjay Nirupam MP will be addressing the event.

Leading pharma associations like OPPI, IDMA, BDMA, IPA and Pharmexcil are the co-partners of the event. Interlink will be releasing a white paper on 'Empowering Indian Pharmaceutical Industry to lead Globally' at the two-day summit. The theme of the summit 'Limitless leadership: Bringing today, tomorrow & beyond' is timely positioned as India is emerging as a preferred destination for outsourcing drug discovery, clinical research and manufacturing sectors.

The two-day summit will have presentations by Tapan Ray, director general, OPPI on 'the Obama’s Healthcare Policy-An Indian Perspective and its implications', and another by Kewal Handa, managing director, Pfizer on 'the leadership in the face of change mastering resiliency: The road ahead'. Some of the other speakers are Dr Ramakant Panda, vice-chairman, Asian Heart Institute and Dr Krishna Ella, CMD, Bharat Biotech International.