Negar Babae is biomedical scientist with a Masters degree in Drug Innovation from Utrecht University. She obtained her PhD degree in oncology, also at Utrecht University. She is a pharmacovigilance assessor at the Medicines Evaluation Board in the Netherlands. As a regulatory authority she has experiences in assessing Risk Management plans, pre-post approval study protocols, signal procedures, and PSUSAs. Within the MEB she is closely involved in collaboration with Patient Safety organization IVM/VMI and the pharmacovigilance centre Lareb in context of the signal management process. She is the chair of MEB-IVM/VMI consultations and vice-chair of MEB-Lareb consultations.

Maris Kuningas has worked as a pharmacovigilance inspector at the Dutch Health and Youth Care Inspectorate since August 2011. Before joining IGJ, Maris worked as postdoctoral researcher at the department of Epidemiology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Maris has a PhD in genetic epidemiology from the Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands.

Vojtech is a qualified expert in drug safety and pharmacovigilance with extensive experience gained through working on different positions across all PV areas. The wide exposure to global clients (both sponsors and MAHs) has helped him to gain a comprehensive overview of critical PV processes and systems. Vojtech’s main expertise is advance pharmacovigilance consulting, EU QPPV activities, signal management, ICSR management, EudraVigilance support, XEVMPD/ISO IDMP, PV auditing and medical writing.

Jan is a passionate and visionary leader in the field of pharmacovigilance, with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is the CEO of iVigee, a company that provides innovative and sustainable solutions for drug safety and risk management. He is also a Fellow of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (FISoP), a Global Fellow in Medicines Development (GFMD), and a Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (QPPV). Jan has a proven track record of establishing, growing, and selling successful organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, in the pharmacovigilance sector. He has received multiple awards and recognitions, including the DIA Excellence in Service Award in 2018 and HM Queen's Award for International Trade in 2019.

Main roles and responsibilities are within the signal management activities in the EMA Pharmacovigilance Office; to conduct of ad-hoc queries and related data analyses based on requests from (Co)-Rapporteurs, EMA’s Scientific Committees and relevant Working Parties in the context of product related safety issues using EVDAS; to provide expert advice to EMA product teams on pharmacovigilance/signal detection and management issues; to support the implementation of the EV Access Policy and address requests related to access to information/documents from EV; to support the implementation of the Pharmacovigilance legislation. Rodrigo is co-chair of the EudraVigilance Expert Working Group.

Anja van Haren holds a Master in Health Policy and Management from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Her career at the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) in the Netherlands started in 1998 as a Pharmacovigilance assessor. Since 2004 she has been responsible for technical and procedural aspects of expedited Adverse Drug Reaction reporting in pharmacovigilance. In her current position at the MEB as EudraVigilance Coordinator the focus of her work is on ADR reports, signal detection and signal management. Anja is co-chair of the EudraVigilance Expert Working Group, co-chair of the Pharmacovigilance Business Team and representative of the EU in the ICH E2B(R3) and ICH E2D(R1) Expert Working Groups.

Anita Volkers has been a pharmacovigilance assessor for more than 15 years at the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB). She obtained a PhD degree in psychology/psychiatry and has been a researcher in the field of pharmacoepidemiology for several years since then. In the field of pharmacovigilance, she is all round experienced with a broad regulator perspective of risk minimization of adverse drug reactions and medication errors. Areas of special interest are the risk of dependence and addiction with pain medication and other CNS acting medicines, Pregnancy Prevention Programs (PPPs), enhanced digital access to (a)RMM, and post-marketing evaluation studies of the effectiveness of RMM including qualitative studies.

Fokaline Vroom has been in the pharmacovigilance department of the MEB since 2020. Since 2008, she has been working for the MEB as a quality assessor. She completed her PhD in pharmacoepidemiology on drug use in pregnancy in 2009 at the University of Groningen. As pharmacovigilance assessor and as a regulator she has experiences in assessing national implementation of risk minimization and is involved in signal detection management.

Inge Zomerdijk has been in the pharmacovigilance department of MEB since 2010. A senior pharmacovigilance assessor and as a regulator has experiences in assessing Risk Management Plans, study protocols and results of evaluations of risk minimisation measures, national implementation of risk minimization measures as well as benefit-risk assessments of both new drug applications or post marketing follow up. In 2015 she completed her PhD research at the Erasmus Medical Center, focusing on how to evaluate risk minimization measures, the impact of these measures on the benefit-risk balance of drugs and translating possibilities and challenges to practical implications for regulatory authorities and industry and remains involved in research.

Over the past 25 years Wendy has been dedicated to pharmacovigilance. She has broad experience as EU QPPV for generic and innovative products in complex companies. She also has wealth of experience in lobbying and networking in trade associations/working groups. In her current role, Wendy provides pharmacovigilance support to Pharmaceutical Industry and SMEs (startups). She enjoys setting up the PV system and supports in the development of the PSMF with associated documents. Since 2020 Wendy is a trained professional in Transactional Analysis (TA). TA is a theory of human personality and social behavior. TA gives a wealth of options to work with challenges and changes in organisational and personal development.

Fakhredin Sayed Tabatabaei is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, working as Senior Assessor Pharmacovigilance at the Dutch national agency (MEB) for more than 17 years. He is also the chairman of the CMDh HaRP Project (Harmonization of Risk Management Plan). Fakhredin was an active member of the European Pioneer Group drafting the electronic product information (ePI) Key Principles that is published in 2020, and he is currently involved in the ePI Pilot Project in the Netherlands. Besides, he is the MEB representative in the Gravitate Health project, and the Network Subject Matter Expert in the Product Management Services (PMS) project.