Andrea Kurz Roche

Andrea Kurz is Director External Advocacy Europe at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. in Basel, Switzerland.

Andrea has 20+ years’ experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry and held various positions in Quality & Compliance and Regulatory Affairs for investigational and commercial products. She is a pharmacist by education and graduated from the Ruprecht - Karls - Universität Heidelberg in Germany. As a qualified and experienced GMP Lead Auditor she gained excellent knowledge of cGMP regulations and Pharma Quality Systems. With focus on EU, UK and Switzerland Andreas leads Policy and Strategy activities in Quality, including Global Inspection and Compliance.

Andrea actively leads or participates in committees in trade and individual member associations related to quality initiatives, regulations, and conferences. At EFPIA, Andrea is a member of the GMP sub team and the EFPIA Inspection Topic Team where she is actively engaged in the inspection data collection and their assessment resulting in the publication of the Annual Regulatory GMP/GDP Inspection Survey data.