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Levin currently serves on the board of H. Lundbeck A/S and in 2019 was elected as the chairman of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO).

Prior to joining Ovid, Levin served as president and CEO of Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE:TEVA), one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. Previously, he was a member of the executive committee of Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY), where he had global responsibilities for strategy, alliances and transactions. In this role, he devised and led BMY's “String of Pearls” business development strategy. This strategy helped drive the transformation of BMY, particularly following the acquisition by Levin of Medarex Inc. in July 2009, which positioned BMY as a leader in immunooncology. Prior to this, Levin was head of global business development and strategic alliances at Novartis (NYSE: NVS), and previously served as chairman and CEO of Cadus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Levin married Margery Feldberg (daughter of Stanley Feldberg, co-founder of TJX Companies) in 1987 and has two daughters. He is the brother of David Levin, CEO of McGraw-Hill Education. He is also the brother of Michal Levin. Levin's mother, Leah Levin OBE, is Hon. Doctor of the University of Essex. She served on the board of the United Nations Association, Anti-Slavery and International Alert, and was director of JUSTICE from 1982 to 1992. Ms. Levin also served on Boards of Redress, Readers International, and the International Journal of Human Rights.She is the author of UNESCO's "Human Rights: Questions and Answers," one the world's widely disseminated books on human rights.

Jeremy Levin was born in South Africa, where his family had a farm, De Hoek Farm, in Piketberg, Western Cape. Following the Sharpeville massacre, he left South Africa and moved to live in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). His father was a political journalist, who in 1965, was given a day to leave the country. Levin, his mother and brother followed some time later eventually settling in London England where he completed his undergraduate, graduate and medical degrees. Prior to his business experience Levin practised medicine, working at university hospitals including the Hammersmith Hospital in London, Groote Schuur in Cape Town, South Africa and Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland. Levin, who lives in the US, has previously lived in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Great Britain, Switzerland and Israel. In 1986, Levin came to America and where he has worked in the biopharmaceutical industry in progressively senior positions.

Jeremy Levin (born 1954) is a South African-born businessman, medical doctor and research scientist. In 2018, Levin was named as one of the most influential figures in the biopharmaceutical industry.