CAMBRIDGE, USA // Anne de Schweinitz leads Takeda’s Global Corporate Brand & Content team, responsible for bringing the story of Takeda’s role in health and society to life for audiences around the world. 

Prior to joining Takeda in September 2024, Anne led FleishmanHillard’s Global Health & Life Sciences practice for more than a decade, focused on helping organizations maintain, grow, and defend their positions in the healthcare market through effective engagement with a wide range of critical stakeholders.  Previous roles include healthcare practice leadership and global account management roles at WPP and Publicis agencies while based in San Francisco, New York and London across her career. 

Anne is an honors graduate of Rutgers College of Rutgers University with a joint degree in history and political science, and a minor concentration in biology. Anne served as jury president for the Pharma Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2021 and was honored for five consecutive years as one of the most influential people in healthcare communications on the top “Health Influencer” lists by Medical Marketing & Media and PR Week.  She loves the opportunity to review and learn from great creative work and has enjoyed serving as a jury member for the Effies, MM&M Awards and Clio Health on multiple occasions.