Speaker Biography
Chedia Abdelkafi
Chedia Abdelkafi is Director of Clinical Supplies Solutions at N-SIDE, a leading Operations Research consulting firm with offices in Belgium and the United States. Abdelkafi started her career in 2000 at Eli Lilly & Company, as a clinical supply coordinator. Over the 7.5 years of her tenure, she led the EMEA IVRS group, as well as a team in charge of clinical supply management, and co-developed a global strategy to optimize clinical supply chain management. She has presented on this topic at various specialized conferences and is the author of an article published in the September 09 issue of the ISPE’s Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation: "Balancing Risk and Costs to Optimize the Clinical Supply Chain: A Step Beyond Simulation". Abdelkafi holds a Master of Science (Biotechnology Engineering) from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and an MBA from Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Belgium).