João Duarte is currently Director, Business Planning & Operations at Alexion, AstraZenenca Rare Disease. João serves as Chief of Staff to the Head of Regulatory & Quality Affairs and leads regulatory policy activities within the team. He held several roles since 2012 in Regulatory Intelligence & Policy, notably at Lundbeck and Takeda, where he worked to help colleagues to better understand the shifting regulatory environment and to support drug development in several therapeutic areas globally. João also worked briefly in the generics industry in Portugal and at the European Medicines Agency as a trainee.