Pharmaceutical industry focuses on Kyung-Hae Lee from GSK

She is the only candidate among pharmacist applicants, with the 13th list of the United Future Party in the general election on April 15

She was in charge of vaccination, contributing to the introduction of NIP, etc.

Candidate Kyung-Hae Lee

Personnel from executives of multinational pharmaceutical companies is on the list of proportional representative candidates for the United Future Party, attracting the attention of the industry.

 

Kyung-Hae Lee(52) is the current vice president of BioGraphene and has been working in the Foreign Cooperation Department of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) from 2011 to 2018.

 

The Future Korea Party, the United Future Party’s satellite party, tentatively confirmed the list of candidates for the general election on April 15 and the order number on the 16th.

 

This is the 13th which is rated as the right to win, among the 7 pharmacists who applied for a candidate for proportional representation.

 

She graduated from the Department of Chemistry at Dongguk University and from Sungkyunkwan University School of Pharmacy.

 

She has experience in teaching general chemistry and organic chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at Dongguk University.

 

Prior to joining GSK, She also worked as a policy adviser to former National Assembly member, Eunhee Bae who is now deceased.

 

When she worked for GSK, Kyung-Hae Lee was primarily responsible for expanding the benefits of premium vaccines such as the pneumococcal vaccine 'Synflorix' and the cervical cancer vaccine 'Cervarix'.

 

All of these vaccines are currently included in the National Immunization Program (NIP).

 

In addition, her husband, Won-dong Jeong (53), was the executive officer of Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs of Cheongwadae, and is currently a member of the Korea Exchange.

 

Expert committee member Jeong is said to have played a strong role in helping Lee start the political campaign.

 

An official from a multinational pharmaceutical company who worked at GSK said that he was cheering for the new starter by saying that Kyung-Hae Lee had been a good-natured and sincere person since she worked at a pharmaceutical company.

 

Meanwhile, on the list of proportional representatives, Sang-Hyuk Bang (53), a full-time vice-chairman of the Korean Medical Association, was given the number 20 of the elections.