Sofia van Berlekom, MSc AstraZeneca

Sofia van Berlekom, Global Quality Director, is the Global Business Process Owner (BPO) for Quality Risk Management at AstraZeneca Operations since November 2016. As the BPO she leads the global QRM network and is both responsible for QRM process improvements, compliance and system support as well as quality risk roll up within AstraZeneca Operations.

Prior to the BPO role she has been with AstraZeneca Sweden Operations since 1998 where she has held various quality leadership roles supporting API, oral solid dose, packaging and inhalation device manufacturing as well as leadership roles supporting the QMS processes; complaints, change control, internal and external audits, computerized systems and new products introductions.

Sofia van Berlekom received her MSc in Chemical Engineering (1993) and Licentiate in Organic Chemistry (1998) at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.