In particular, the fortune of the head of Moderna, Stefan Bansel, is now estimated at $4.3 billion.
According to TASS, a report prepared by the nongovernmental organization People’s Vaccine Alliance, citing data from the American magazine Forbes, said that nine people around the world have become dollar billionaires thanks to the revenues of pharmaceutical companies from the production of vaccines against coronavirus.
“According to the report, the head of the American company Moderna, Stefan Bansel, and the CEO and co-founder of the German company BioNTech, Ugur Shahin, topped the list of new billionaires. Their fortune is now estimated at $4.3 billion and $4 billion, respectively”, – the message says.
“The rating also includes the chairman of the board of directors of Moderna Noubar Afeyan, American investors Timothy Springer and Robert Langer, who invested $5 million and $1.5 million in 2010 million in the development of Moderna, and the head of the board of directors of the Spanish pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi Juan Lopez-Belmonte. In addition, during the pandemic, the three co-founders of the Chinese pharmaceutical company Cansino became billionaires”.
The report notes that the combined fortune of the new billionaires is estimated at $19.3 billion. It is argued that this amount would be enough to vaccinate the entire population of low-income countries.