Claudia Christian

Claudia Christian has over 25 years’ experience in the execution of global clinical programs. Christian has held multiple positions from fieldwork to executive leadership in biotech, pharma and both large and niche CROs across all phases and multiple indications. She has broad experience managing industry-, government- and grant-funded portfolios.

Christian has successfully participated in executive ownership programs through mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and has a passion for corporate growth targeting challenging international markets with a focus on accessible and sustainable improvements in resource-constrained settings.

Prior to joining FHI Clinical, she served as Vice President, Global Operations for a niche CRO where she was instrumental in developing the commercial pipeline, growing the book of business by 3 times in less than 3 years, completing due diligence and sale well ahead of planned timelines and growing the company valuation by 5 times from inception to point of sale with over 18% growth year over year (YoY) in revenue, a net book to bill of 1.2 (YoY) and gross margin above 26%.

She serves as Senior Vice President of Client Solutions, maximizing performance of a global expanding portfolio of programs and staff across Africa, the Americas and Asia in pandemic and infectious diseases.