Susanne Keitel, PhD European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare (EDQM)

Susanne Keitel, PhD, is director of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare (EDQM), a directorate of the Council of Europe, the oldest pan-European organisation. After 10 years in R&D in the research-based pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Keitel held a number of senior leadership positions at the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Germany, including the overall responsibility for pharmaceutical quality, prior to joining the EDQM in 2007.

Dr. Keitel is a licensed pharmacist and obtained her PhD in pharmaceutics from Free Univsersity Berlin, Germany.