Peter got his medical degree from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and until the end of 2003, Peter practised as a General Practitioner in the UK. In 2004, he joined Roche as a drug safety physician in the local organisation. Taking up roles with increasing responsibility, Peter was appointed Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance for Roche in 2011. He left Roche at the end of 2014 to take a role at Daichii Sankyo and moved on to be the Head of Global Drug Safety & QPPV for Grunenthal. Peter has extensive experience in pre-approval and post-marketing pharmacovigilance.

Elspeth McIntosh began her career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1993, initially working in clinical research, before moving into Pharmacovigilance. She has extensive experience of all aspects of pharmacovigilance and has been a small company QPPV since 1999, dealing with innovative, generic and biotech/biological products. Elspeth set up Castle Pharmacovigilance in 2009 and post Brexit she is a UK QPPV and UK National Contact Person for several small pharma companies and provides general PV support to a wide range of pharma companies.

With 10 years in research and >30 in safety, Margaret is currently the Deputy EU Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance at MSD Ltd. Activities include input to the EFPIA PV EWG, ICH, MedDRA (pre-ICH), the EMA EudraVigilance Steering Committee and the EWG, plus authoring papers on parasitology and drug safety

Michael Richardson has many years of global management experience in research based life Sciences companies. He has worked in major multinational companies’ across the globe both at a Regional management level and heading up Research and Development in Asia. Currently Head of Bristol Myers Squibb’s Pharmacovigilance Function. Prior to this role he headed BMS and Eli Lilly’s Development and Medical Organization across Asia Pacific. Before joining Lilly he worked in a joint venture in Japan, Fujisawa-Fisons setting up their development and quality control organisations and prior to that with Organon laboratories in the UK as Medical Director.

After his training in hospital medicine and clinical research for 14 years, Dr. Edwards joined the UK Medicines Control Agency (MHRA) in 1994 where he had various responsibilities as a pharmacovigilance assessor. In 1999 he joined Parexel to become Senior Medical Director before joining J&J as a deputy QPPV in 2005. In addition he is Director of ISoP Secretariat Ltd, ISoP Board Member and VP in the Alliance Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES) . He chairs the unique Pharmaceutical ergonomics & human Factors Group in the UK. After 14 years at NDA Regulatory Science Ltd, he has his own pharmacovigilance consultancy Husoteria Ltd

Qualified as a pharmacist in 1981 and started her career in hospital pharmacy. In 1983 she specialised in Drug Information Services and moved to Kuwait to set up and run the first National Drug Information Centre. On her return to the UK, Vicki spent the next four years in community pharmacy. In 1996 Vicki joined GlaxoWellcome and started her career in pharmacovigilance. In 2002 she moved to AstraZeneca UK Ltd as the Drug Safety Manager moving on to become Head of Drug Safety & Medical Information. Vicki joined Abbott in 2005 as European Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (EU QPPV). In 2013 moved to AbbVie as EU QPPV and Head of Affiliate Safety Excellence (ASE) and is now VP, Pharmacovigilance Excellence and I-QPPV.

Doris Stenver is the founder of Unique Advice and she is specialised in internal medicine and has a master degree in public administration. She is former Chief Medical Officer at the Danish Medicines Agency and former member of the EU Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC). Her regulatory experience comprises all aspects of pharmacovigilance, including scientific evaluation of drug safety issues, development of risk management strategies, policies and guidelines, provision of scientific advice to the pharmaceutical industry, and communication to health care professionals and the public.

After studies in clinical research and development, specialising in Clinical data management, Francois worked for pharmaceutical companies in various position in clinical data management. He joined the European Medicines Agency in 2009 where he works in the Data Standardisation and Analytics service of Information Management Division. He is the project manager of the EudraVigilance Auditable Requirements project, set-up to complete the implementation of the new Pharmacovigilance legislation and to deliver the new EudraVigilance system. He is also supporting all activities related to the data management and analysis of the EudraVigilance (EV) system in particular using the EudraVigilance Data Analysis System (EVDAS) and SAS.

Mick Foy has been with the MHRA for more than 35 years, he is a member of the MHRA’s Executive Committee and has recently been appointed Director of Delivery . Amongst his responsibilities is to drive initiatives to introduce new and improved services to stakeholders. Mick is SRO for the SafetyConnect and RegulatoryConnect programmes. He also leads MHRA efforts to build PV capabilities in other countries particularly low and middle income countries as part of a global initiative with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Main roles and responsibilities are with the implementation of the EudraVigilance database and international standardisation development through involvement with ICH, ISO and HL7. This also involves providing technical and practical advice to Marketing Authorisation Holders, National Competent Authorities and Sponsors of Clinical Trials on how to implement IT systems to submit data on Adverse Drug Reaction reports electronically to the EudraVigilance database.

Esteban has worked in both academia and industry in a range of roles including academic research, drug discovery, pharmacovigilance and regulatory policy. Before joining AbbVie, Esteban was Director of Regulatory Intelligence and Policy at Daiichi Sankyo Development Ltd, lead for Pharmacovigilance & Regulatory Affairs at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) as well as working in pharmacovigilance for P&G Pharmaceuticals and drug discovery for Novartis. He holds a Biochemistry BSc from Warwick University, PhD in virology from University College London, and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London

Dr Saint-Raymond is a French paediatrician. In 1995, she joined the French Medicines Agency, and in 2000 she joined the EMA where she was the Head of Special Areas (Paediatrics, Orphan Drugs, Scientific Advice, SME Office and Scientific Projects). She implemented the European Orphan Drug Regulation then the Paediatric Regulation. She has been an expert for the European Commission, the European Developing Countries Trial Partnership, the Canadian Council of Academies, and the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, a member of the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for women and Children and Associate Prof of Paediatrics at Tor Vergata University Rome.

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.

Responsible for Pharmacovigilance activities in the EU and Balkans, as well as PV Intelligence and Operational activities within the International PV organization. As part of the Operational activities she holds responsibility for the PSMF. She previously served as Intelligence and Training expert in PV as part of the Quality Standards and Training Group in Bristol Myers Squibb and managed PV projects. Willemijn is a member of the EFPIA Pharmacovigilance Expert Working Group and the International Pharmacovigilance Group where she chairs the CIS and Balkan sub-teams. She started her career in Quintiles, followed by Aventis where she was involved in GCP activities.

Sue has been in the pharmaceutical industry for over 25 years. Sue joined Amgen in 2013 as EU QPPV. Sue works closely with the Global Patient Safety team and a network of local safety officers to provide oversight of patient safety across the EU. Sue sits on the Efpia Pharmacovigilance Expert Group and is an honorary Fellow of PIPA (Pharmaceutical Information and Pharmacovigilance Association). Prior to joining Amgen Sue spent 3 years at Eisai Europe Ltd as Head of International Pharmacovigilance and EU QPPV having previously held various roles in safety, medical information and marketing for GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca operating at both the affiliate and global level. Sue holds a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and MSc in Immunology.

Kiernan joined Roche as a Principal Quality Lead focussing on pharmacovigilance quality assurance strategies. Previously, she worked as a GPvP Inspector at the MHRA for 1O years, with her most recent role being Expert GPvP Inspector. She contributed to the development of the EU GVP, had a role in the training of GPvP Inspectors in other EU Member States and contributed significantly to the MHRA’s preparedness work in relation to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Before joining the MHRA, Kiernan worked as a certified Quality Assurance auditor for a central laboratory that provided services for Phase I-III pharmaceutical clinical trials. Kiernan has a Master of Biomedical Sciences degree from the University of Southampton.

Dr June Raine is the CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Dr Raine trained in general medicine in Oxford after completing a Master’s degree by research in pharmacology. Her interest in drug safety led to a career in medicines regulation from 1985 onwards. She was Director of the Vigilance and Risk Management of Medicines division from 2006. Her experience includes chairing the European Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) on behalf of the European Medicines Agency for six years. She is also a member of the WHO Advisory Committee on Safety of Medicinal Products.

Dr. Sabine Straus has been with the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) in the Netherlands since 1997, where she started as an Assessor Pharmacovigilance. Prior to working at the MEB she held different positions in the pharmaceutical industry, her last job as Medical Director at Searle Monsanto in the Netherlands. As of July 2012 she is the Dutch member in the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC). In addition to her work at the MEB she holds a position as associate professor at the Erasmus Medical Center, department of Medical Informatics in Rotterdam. Her main research focus is on additional risk minimisation, pregnancy prevention programs, biologicals, signal detection and signal management.

Magnus Ysander is the EU and UK QPPV for the AstraZeneca group of companies since 2015 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He joined the company in 2002 and have had several specialist, oversight and line managerial roles within the AstraZeneca pharmacovigilance organisation. Magnus is a MD and has previously worked as a certified Orthopedic Surgeon. He is a member of EFPIA Pharmacovigilance Expert Group and the Program Committee for the DIA QPPV Forum.

Dr Emil Andrei Cochino is a Specialist in Public Health and Health Services Management. He has been a scientific officer at EMA from 2009, and is working in the Human Medicines Department as a Scientific Senior Specialist (Risk Management), where he is responsible for peer-reviewing risk management plans for centrally authorised products (ATMPs and vaccines) and improving the access of ATMPs to the market by supporting the collaboration with the HTA and payers organisations. Furthermore, he has overseen the revision 2 update of GVP Module V – Risk Management Systems and coreRMP19 guidance.

Núria Semis-Costa is a biochemist (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) with a MSc in Pharmacovigilance (Universitat de Barcelona). After working in the industry in the field of blood products, she joined the EMA as a Risk Management Specialist in 2015, where she works in the areas of rheumatology, immunology and advanced therapies. Núria is also involved in initiatives related to risk management of biosimilars and medicines in pregnancy, the maintenance of the RMP template and the update of GVP XVI.