Susanne Keitel, Ph.D., Former Director of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (Bonn, Germany) (Scopus)
Research interests: pharmaceutical sciences, quality of medicines, regulatory affairs.
Key accomplishments: Susanne Keitel is a licensed pharmacist with a PhD in pharmaceutical technology. Following ten years in R&D in the pharmaceutical industry, she held various senior positions at the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Germany. During her time with BfArM, she represented the agency in a number of EU committees and was actively involved in the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH), where she represented the EU as topic leader and rapporteur. On a national level, she was, from 2001 to 2007, Chair of the German Pharmacopoeia and the German Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia. From October 2007 to October 2021, Susanne Keitel was the Director of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Susanne Keitel also lectured in the postgraduate course “Master of Drug Regulatory Affairs” at Bonn University, where she was responsible for the module on the quality dossier. In 2009, she was elected as corresponding Foreign Member at the French Académie Nationale de Pharmacie.
Hirsch index: 5 (SCOPUS).
Membership of organisations:
- Académie Nationale de Pharmacie,
- German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG),
- International Association for Pharmaceutical Technology (APV),
- German Society for Regulatory Affairs (DGRA),
- Chamber of Pharmacists of North Rhine-Westphalia.
