Sabine Brosch was appointed DPO at EMA in January 2022. She joined EMA in 1996 and has been working in pharmacovigilance, clinical trials and international harmonisation (ICH) and standardisation (ISO) focusing on the development of the Individual Case Safety Report and Identification of Medicinal Products standards as well as the medical terminology MedDRA. She holds a master’s degree in pharmacy and a doctor of natural sciences degree of the University of Vienna, Austria.

Saad Shakir is a pharmacoepidemiologist and drug safety physician. He has worked in the fields of pharmacovigilance, pharmacoepidemiology and risk management for 30 years, initially at the UK Regulatory Authority, then the international pharmaceutical industry and as the Director of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) in Southampton. The DSRU is a service provider and associate department of the University of Portsmouth. At the DSRU Saad leads a research team with an active programme for monitoring and studying the safety of medicines in populations. He has led many important drug safety studies and has worked and advised on many drug safety issues including product withdrawals, major restrictions and important safety hazards.

Steve Jolley is a subject matter expert in all areas of global safety compliance and signal detection, and is a frequent speaker at leading industry events. Steve has 30 years’ experience in drug safety and pharmacovigilance and has worked with over 100 clients in North America, Europe, Japan, India and China. He holds degrees in mathematics and computer science from Cambridge University, England. He is an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University and teaches part of their Master’s degree in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance.