Ylva Ek

Director at ISPE

Ylva Ek is currently Chief Quality Officer (CQO) at KeyPlants AB in Stockholm. In her role, she is responsible for the Quality System, Quality Strategy and Environment, Health and Safety (EHS). She has extensive experience building and outfitting GMP manufacturing facilities from companies in the Pharma and Biotech Industry. Ylva has also worked for 7 years at the Swedish Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket), a part of the European medicines regulatory network. Having held Global responsibilities in many roles her experience includes working in China, Ireland, mainland Europe and the United States. Ylva is Past Chair of ISPE Nordic Affiliate (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland). She serves on the ISPE Regulatory Quality Harmonization Committee, Europe - Middle East - Africa Regional Focus Group (RQHC EMEA RFG) Steering Committee and in the Regulatory sub-group in the ISPE Biotechnology Special Interest Group (SIG). She received her Master of Science in Biology (minor in Pharmacology) at Uppsala University and has been a guest researcher at UCSD and Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA.

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