Paula Katz Covington & Burling

Paula is a Special Counsel at Covington & Burling. She advises clients on pharmaceutical compliance and enforcement. She joined the firm after serving as Director of Guidance and Policy for the Office of Manufacturing Quality in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). While at the FDA, Ms. Katz focused on current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) enforcement and drug quality policy issues. She advised CDER and FDA leadership regarding manufacturing supply chain controls, contract manufacturing, data and application integrity, administrative law and procedure, and regulatory policy development and enforcement strategy. Ms. Katz is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia School of Law.