Yolanda Peens is the Executive Director of SAAPI and a registered pharmacist. She has 25 years’ of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry. Throughout her career, she represented the industry at various organisations and in different capacities.
Her experience is extensive and includes but is not limited to strategic planning, regulatory affairs, product & market analysis both on a local and international level, pipeline development, quality assurance, vigilance, facility licensing and auditing, marketing material approvals, development of regulatory teams, quality management systems etc.
She worked on registration projects that included medical devices, complementary medicines and pharmaceutical products such as biologicals, biosimilars, new chemical entities and generic medicines. She also locums in retail on a regular basis.