---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Vas Narasimhan to Board of Directors"
description: "Vas Narasimhan has been appointed to Anthropic's Board of Directors by the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust. He is a physician-scientist and the Chief Executive Officer of."
resource: "https://www.anthropic.com/news/narasimhan-board"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "benchmark", "anthropic"]
timestamp: "2026-04-14"
category: "benchmark"
publisher: "Anthropic"
cope_score: 54
confidence: 0.88
---

# Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Vas Narasimhan to Board of Directors

# Claim

Vas Narasimhan has been appointed to Anthropic's Board of Directors by the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust. He is a physician-scientist and the Chief Executive Officer of Novartis—one of the world's leading innovative medicines companies—and shares Anthropic’s conviction that healthcare and life sciences are among the areas where AI has the greatest.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section one: model and benchmark capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a low-signal vendor radar item. Keep it as context only unless a later benchmark, deployment, procurement change, or labour-market datapoint turns it into direct Appendix III evidence.

# Metadata

* Publisher: Anthropic
* Category: benchmark
* Sector: Healthcare and life sciences
* Capability: Enterprise workflow automation
* Cope score: 54
* Confidence: 0.88

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Vas Narasimhan to Board of Directors](https://www.anthropic.com/news/narasimhan-board)