News - Midlands
NSRP appoints pharma exec as new chair
A former senior executive at a global pharmaceutical company has taken the helm of the North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership (NSRP). Dr Catherine Raines PhD, who was previously chair of AstraZeneca’s China Business Council based in Shanghai and is currently a non-executive director of HM Land Registry, has been appointed as the regeneration body’s new chair. Dr Raines said: “I am absolutely thrilled to be appointed to this critical role for North Staffordshire. As a Midlander myself, I am 100 per cent committed to seeing progress across the whole breadth of the North Staffordshire sub-region.”