Ylva Ek

Ylva Ek 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 currently a volunteer board member 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.