WOUTER BIESEMANS

Vice President Compliance, Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services

– Pharmacist by education, including a post-master’s degree
– 15+ years of working mainly in quality related positions at larger pharmaceutical companies (Novartis/Alcon and UCB)
– Joined Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma services 3 years ago
– Part of the Global and Regional Leadership Team, including Global collaboration lead across the Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma services sites (BE – US – JPN – IN)
– In charge for the functional domains of Quality, Safety Health & Environment
– Engineered Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma services sustainability strategy 2 years ago (Sustainable Entrepreneurship program).
– Practical roll-out of strategy is quite successful: several sites received gold ratings on EcoVadis assessments, our company is getting recognised as a topknotted sustainability performer by several top 15 pharmaceutical companies