Névine Zariffa

Névine Zariffa is currently the Scientific Advisor at Anova Enterprises. Névine previously served as a Board Member at CDISC from January 2014 to January 2020. During their time at CDISC, they were a privilege to serve the community by supporting and shaping CDISC as a Board Member. With all the advances in analytics and computational power, our ambitions are rightly greater than ever. It is an inescapable truth that these methods all require data to deliver for patients. Hence the mission of CDISC.

From November 2011 to April 2019, Névine Zariffa was the SVP, Head of Biometrics & Information Sciences at AstraZeneca. During their time at AstraZeneca, they built one of the industry’s leading Biometrics organizations - a team where the skills of biostatistics, programming, information practice, advanced analytics/artificial intelligence and operational expertise support one of the most thriving pipelines of new medicines to patients. Traditional and cutting edge tools were brought together systematically to embed credible improvements in methodologies and inference.

At AstraZeneca, Névine Zariffa also established the foundations for the Enterprise Data and Analytics programme to create a company-wide IT and governance infrastructure for data, enhancing the acumen in data sciences to generate insights at scale, and evolving our culture to use these insights in decision making. In addition, they led the collaboration across the enterprise to facilitate smooth transitions from early to late stage development and a paradigm-shift in how patient data is appropriately shared to generate new insights. As a core member of the enterprise late stage development committee, Névine Zariffa brought quantitative and personal insights to decision making for the portfolio.

Névine Zariffa has a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics from McGill University.