Rikke Winther has worked in the CRO and Pharmaceutical industry for the past 30 years and has experience from Clinical R&D, Business Development and Contract/Outsourcing Management. She built up and headed up Lundbeck group of Outsourcing & Contracts Management R&D for 19 years and has for the past 4 years worked as an clinical outsourcing specialist for smaller biopharma and covers CRO selection processes as well as contractual, operational and relationship related activities with clinical CROs.
She has in earlier part of her career within bio-analytical research and clinical development in hospital settings as well as project management and business development management at a clinical CRO in Europe and Asia.
Rikke is a former member of the Steering Committee member of the Pharmaceutical Contract Management Group (PCMG) for many years and is a contributing author of the book: “Outsourcing Clinical Development, Gower Publishing Limited”.