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As the head of Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) at Janssen, Karin leads an organization of approximately 900 highly-qualified colleagues who foster relationships with Health Authorities around the world to help Janssen deliver cutting-edge healthcare solutions to patients. In support of Janssen GRA’s commitment of being a future-focused organization, Karin fosters a diverse and inclusive community of regulatory talent and oversees the development of regulatory strategy for products from all Janssen Therapeutic Areas, in addition to the delivery of high quality, on-time regulatory submissions and approvals, globally. Driven by the mantra, “This is how we can, not why we can’t,” Karin leads her team in shaping the regulatory environment and building future capabilities by being a leader in innovation. Karin is currently the chair of EFPIA’s Evidence Generation and Use Priority Working Group, a member of EFPIA’s innovation Board Steering Committee (BSC) and Regulatory Strategy Committee (RSC) and a member of PhRMA’s Regulatory Affairs Coordinating Work Group (RAC). In a prior role, Karin also served as Vice President of GRA at Tibotec BVBA. She joined Johnson & Johnson in 1993 from Upjohn Benelux. Karin earned her Pharmaceutical Sciences degree at the University of Antwerp Belgium.

Sarah Brock, Ph.D. is Vice President and Head of HR Decision Science at Johnson & Johnson. In this role, Sarah is focused on transforming health for humanity through science-based people decisions. She leads the People Analytics function as well as end-to-end People Practices, including Performance, Assessment, Succession, Strategic Workforce Planning and Skills strategy. Most recently, Sarah led Johnson & Johnson’s approach to talent assessment, performance, and succession focused on identifying and developing the right talent at the right time to support business strategy. She drove solutions to deliver a more robust and diverse pipeline, accelerated the on-boarding and readiness of senior executives, and identified and developed high potential emerging and experienced leaders. Additionally, she had responsibility for the enterprise leadership model. Sarah was previously Director of Assessment Services at PDI Ninth House, responsible for the growth and profitability of the firm’s high potential assessment offering, setting global strategy and developing and deploying solutions to the market. Prior to this role, Sarah spent 10 years designing, and delivering global projects to meet the succession and development needs of client organizations. She is a certified executive coach and has consulted with leading organizations across industries on succession management, executive assessments, and high potential identification and development. Sarah received a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Tulsa and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Spanish from Wellesley College. She holds memberships in the American Psychological Association and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.