Carmen Garcia Carbonell
Vice-President Technical and Professional Development
Carmen is a graduated and PhD in Pharmacy at the University of Valencia. She is specialist in Industrial and Galenic Pharmacy and has developed a Management Development Program at IESE and a Master’s Degree in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Economics. She is an active member of the Spanish Association of Industry Pharmacists (AEFI) participating in working groups and also during 8 years as part of the Board of the Association as Vice-president or President. She has been the national delegate for EIPG since 2016. Currently Carmen works as Regulatory Affairs Director and Health Economics Head in LETI Pharma S.L.U. in Madrid (Spain). She has experience in Regulatory Affairs for more than 30 years and as Qualified person for Medicinal Products during 15 years, mainly in biological products in human and veterinary field, in some European countries. She had also experience as Technical Responsible for Cosmetics and for Medical devices. She has a great interest, enthusiasm and commitment to collaborate at the EIPG Bureau and to support pharmacists in the exciting and important job they do day to day in the industry.

Astrid Thorissen
Vice-President Education and Careers
Astrid Thorissen has obtained her Master’s degree at Utrecht University, while her Master’s thesis research on gram negative multidrug resistant bacteria was performed at Monash University in Melbourne. After graduating Astrid started her career at Fagron BV, a global compounding industry provider. She then pursued her career as a Medical Science Liaison at Bayer, focusing on cardiovascular diseases. Afterwards she has made the step to logistics and she’s now managing the Global Healthcare Quality department at Yusen Logistics where she makes sure the GDP network is expanding and also increases the company’s expertise in other healthcare related quality standards like GMP, ISO13485 and GAMP5. Next to that she is implementing several value adding projects, like an EQMS, lane validation, computer systems validation and serialization. Her experience as an Industrial Pharmacist is highly valuable in GDP logistics, a rapidly changing environment that requires more security and safety than ever before. Next to her professional career she has been active in ‘Young NIA’ network in the Netherlands and has been a Dutch Delegate for EIPG since 2018.

Alexia Rensonnet
Vice-President European Affairs
Alexia Rensonnet is a Belgian Industrial Pharmacist with extensive experience in Quality Assurance and recognized as a Qualified Person. She is also passionate about the European project. Her guiding principle is: “Efficient Quality for the patients and stakeholders.” Alexia earned her master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Liège. Her master’s thesis, focused on solid solutions produced by hot-melt extrusion to enhance the bioavailability of active pharmaceutical ingredients, was conducted at the University of Copenhagen. In addition to her advanced master’s degree in Industrial Pharmacy, she holds an advanced master’s degree in Management from Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.
Following her studies, Alexia began her career at GSK Vaccines, where she gained comprehensive experience across multiple Quality Assurance departments—including QA Validation, QA Technical Services, QA Operations, and QA Release-Trending-Compliance—supporting the manufacturing of conjugated polysaccharide vaccines. She later transitioned to the human GDP environment, working for the BeLux affiliate of Mylan/Viatris. Currently, she serves as Supply Chain Quality Operations Director and Zoetis Belgium Responsible Person in the veterinary GDP sector.
Beyond her professional roles, Alexia has been actively involved in associations. She contributed to ISPE Belgium and UPIP-VAPI, the Belgian professional association for pharmacists in the pharmaceutical industry. Since 2018, she has also represented Belgium as a delegate to the European Industrial Pharmacists Group (EIPG). She has been elected as VP of EIPG in May 2025.

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Maurizio Battistini
Treasurer
Maurizio Battistini graduated in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies in 1991 from the Università degli Studi of Milan, and in Pharmacy in 1995 from the same institution. He subsequently obtained a degree as a Quality System Manager from the Swiss Association for Quality in 2002. He is the Managing Director and Qualified Person in a Swiss pharmaceutical company manufacturing parenteral medicinal products, and has been employed in a number of companies, including Abraxis Bioscience, Zambon, Bracco and Indena, in different roles throughout his career. Since 2000, he is a member of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Association in Ticino-Switzerland (AFTI), in particular Vice-President from 2006 to 2015, and more recently the Delegate for External Relations. In 2004, he was added to the Register of Technical Consultations of the Judge at the Varese court, as an expert in industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry. In 2008, he was approved as a Qualified Person by the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) and inserted in the European register of Qualified Persons. He is also enrolled as an expert in several chemical product categories at the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Craftsmanship. He also cooperates with the Professional University of Italian Switzerland (SUPSI), as an international lecturer in the Masters in Advanced Study in Sustainable Pharmaceutical Operations & Engineering, and with the Universities of Parma, Pavia and Perugia, for which he teaches courses at the Master in Pharmaceutical Technologies and Regulatory Activities.

Jane Nicholson
Executive Director
Jane Nicholson is a Chelsea pharmacy graduate, with experience in formulation development at Beecham Research Laboratories and in regulatory affairs, both as Regulatory Affairs Manager at Bristol-Myers Squibb and as a member of the UK MHRA’s Ministerial Advisory Board. She is the past President of both IPSF (International Pharmaceutical Students Federation) and the Industrial Pharmacists Section, Vice-President of the Fédération Internationale Pharmaceutique and, until 2007, also the President of the European Industrial Pharmacists Group. She is currently a member of the British Industrial Pharmacists’ Group Committee, and a designated Fellow of both the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and The Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs.