Speakers

Leila Schwery is Vice President, Manufacturing & Technical Operations for Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals (Janssen). She presently leads the entire internal and external manufacturing network, and the technical operations organization in support of all of Janssen’s new and existing Pharmaceutical products. She previously held the role of Vice President, Value Chain Management Janssen Supply Chain, responsible for the overall product portfolio. Leila joined Johnson & Johnson in 2016 from US based Elanco, a former division of Eli Lilly & Company focused on Animal Health, where she served as Vice President of Global Quality. Prior to that role, Leila worked several years at Novartis and held various roles in different Supply Chain functions (Global Manufacturing, Operations, Planning and EHS (Environment, Health and Safety)) in the pharmaceutical and animal health sectors in Switzerland, Germany and Ireland. Leila earned a degree in Chemical Engineering from the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and has a post-graduate diploma in Safety Engineering from the University of St. Gallen.