Iris Escher is an accomplished professional with extensive experience at Bayer since 2001, currently serving as the VP Business Integration Lead for Pharma & Consumer Health in CORE and Digital Transformation IT Pharma PS Platform Head. Iris has held various key positions, including Head of Quality Unit, Plant Manager overseeing Production Unit B for Drospirenon and Cyproteronacetate, and prior roles in Quality Control and as a Laborleiter for herbicides and insecticides. Academic qualifications include a postdoctoral degree from Harvard University, a doctoral degree from the University of Basel, and a chemistry diploma from Leibniz Universität Hannover, complemented by an exchange program at Stanford University.