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Linda has 39 years' experience in the BioPharma Industry, of which 29 years were spent in regulatory affairs, the last 16 in regulatory strategy, intelligence and policy roles. She is Head of Regulatory Policy and Intelligence at Seagen Inc., formerly Seattle Genetics. She has attained regulatory affairs certification (RAC) for the US, Canada and Europe, and was an inductee to the 2011 Class of RAPS Fellows. Linda was honoured with the DIA's 2012 Excellence in Volunteer Leadership Award. Linda chairs the DIA Regulatory Affairs Community and is founder of the DIA Regulatory Intelligence Working Group. She sat on the planning committee for 2013-2017 DIA Annual Conference, the 2011-2017 RAPS Annual Convergence and is Chair of the RAPS 2019 Annual Convergence in Philadelphia, PA.

João is currently Associate Director for Regulatory Intelligence at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, where he leads the regulatory intelligence and policy activities within the Global Regulatory Affairs team since 2018. 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, while managing the companies' European and global intelligence and policy activities. João also worked briefly in the generics industry in Portugal and at the European Medicines Agency as a trainee. João is a Pharmacist by training and holds a Master in Pharmaceutical Medicine from the Trinity College Dublin.