Dr. Wood is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. He served as the Drug Therapy Section Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1985 to 2004 and is a member of The National Academy of Medicine (formerly the IOM). He was the 2005 recipient of the Rawls-Palmer Award and in 2008 received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from the University of Dundee. Dr. Wood has served on a number of Editorial Boards including the New England Journal of Medicine Editorial Board. He has published over 300 articles, reviews and editorials.

Dr Lembit Rägo was a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Director General of the Estonian State Agency of Medicines until joining WHO Geneva in 1999. When retiring WHO in 2016 Dr Rägo served as the Head of the WHO’s Unit, Regulation of Medicines and Other Health Technologies (RHT), which covered norms and standards, safety, prequalification and regulatory strengthening for medicines, vaccines and diagnostics. 2000-2016 he served also as WHO observer to the ICH Steering Committee, ICH GCG and MedDRA MB, IPRF and ICMRA. Since 2016 he works as a Secretary-General of Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS). Under his leadership CIOMS joined ICH as an observer in 2016 and increased its number of working groups.