Dr. Kyung Won Seo is the Director General of the National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation at the Ministiry of Food and Drug Safety Korea since February 2021. Dr. Seo has involved in many toxicological research and studies and reviewed non-clinical data for 15 years. Dr. Seo was in charge of several divisions as Director including metabolic, reproductive and respiratory product; antibiotics and oncology product; and bioequivalence evaluation. Prior to her current position, Dr. Seo served as Director General of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Research Department from 2015 to 2019.

Gerald J. Dal Pan, MD, MHS currently serves as the Director of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, where since 2005 he has been responsible for the Center’s programs in adverse event surveillance and analysis, pharmacoepidemiology, risk management, and medication error prevention. In this capacity, he is involved in both the premarket and postmarket regulation of drugs and therapeutic biologics, and in the implementation of the drug safety provisions of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act and other initiatives.

Rie Matsui is Senior Director, Regional Labeling Head for APAC, International Labeling Group, Global Regulatory Science, Pfizer Japan. She is also the Head, External Engagements for ILG. She is the founder of Asia Labeling Hub at Pfizer that has created various local label updates for more than 25 countries in Asia. She was a member of the Advisory Council of DIA Japan until 2020 and received the DIA Japan regional award in 2015. Her papers were published in scientific journals such as Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science. She is the vice chair of the 2021 DIA Japan Annual Meeting Program Committee. She received DIA Global Inspire Award Connector in 2022. She is teaching at Keio University and Chiba University and is a pharmacist.