Diane Driver

Diane started her career as a 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 her time at UCB she has led global clinical development programs, set up and managed a global in-house monitoring team, as well as spending 3 years outside clinical operations in the strategic role of Global Project Leader leading global cross-functional teams to develop new drug candidates from research to clinical POC. In 2014 she returned to Clinical Operations to head up UCB’s Outsourcing Contracts & Strategic Partnering department, where she is responsible for developing and implementing the global clinical outsourcing strategy and the management /oversight of UCB’s Strategic Partnering relationships. In addition, Diane also represents UCB on the Oversight Committee of TransCelerate.