Diane has spent over 35 years in the Pharma Industry, starting her career as a research pharmacologist at Smith Kline & French, before switching to Clinical Development in a CRO in 1988. She then spent 12 years taking roles of increasing responsibility and geographical scope, before moving to Pharma in 2000. During this she has led global clinical development programs, set up and managed a global in-house monitoring team, headed UCB’s Outsourcing Contracts & Strategic Partnering department, and is currently Head of Program Delivery, where she provides expertise and leadership of a global team to drive & oversee operational delivery of clinical programs of all phases across the portfolio, leadership of a Global Strategic Feasibility team where the increasing use of digital and AI technologies is supporting new approaches to site and country selection, as well as leadership of a Global Clinical Trial Patient Engagement team who support gathering patient insights before, during and after clinical trials, and patient recruitment activities. Enhancing clinical trial diversity is also a key responsibility within the Program Delivery team.
In addition, Diane has also represented UCB on the Integrated Leadership Team of TransCelerate since 2014.