Company: GLPG
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001558370-25-003806
Chunk: 249

Company: GALAPAGOS NV
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 249
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 on March 26, 2024, consists of three members (situation as of December 31, 2024): Elisabeth Svanberg, Jérôme Contamine, and Simon Sturge.
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The Ad Hoc Committee supports and provides advice to the Board of Directors in the review of value enhancing strategies. This Ad Hoc Committee also served as the Committee of independent Directors in accordance with art. 7:97 of the Belgian Companies Code advising the Board of Directors on the decision to separate the Company into two publicly listed entities, announced on January 8, 2025. The Committee met as frequently as necessary to ensure effective operation of its responsibilities.
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D.     Employees
As of December 31, 2024, we had 704 employees. Our employees in Belgium, France and the Netherlands have established employee representation through works councils. We have never experienced any employment-related work stoppages, and we consider our relations with our employees to be generally good. We have also engaged and may continue to engage independent contractors to assist us with our clinical activities. At each date shown, we had the following number of employees, broken out by department and geography:

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Function:                                      ​    ​                     
Executive officers                       4          ​       5   ​        4
Research                                 165        ​     143   ​      267
Development                              289        ​     305   ​      342
Commercial and medical affairs           ​    29    ​     373   ​      420
Corporate and support                    217        ​     297   ​      305
Total                                    704        ​   1,123   ​    1,338
Geography:                                     ​    ​       ​   ​        ​
Leiden, the Netherlands                  245        ​     203   ​      147
Mechelen, Belgium                        326        ​     457   ​      547
Romainville, France                      14         ​      95   ​      254
Boston &amp; Pittsburgh, United States   ​    76    ​      36   ​       20
Basel, Switzerland                       ​    34    ​      52   ​       53
Cambridge, United Kingdom