The Board of Officers
The current members of the IFAPP Board of Officers are listed below. This Board will serve a two-year term, from 2021 to 2023, at the conclusion of which the House of Delegates will elect a new Board.
If you wish to contact any member of the Board of Officers below please get in touch with:
IFAPP secretariat
p/a Business2gether
Leidsestraatweg 41-D
3443 BP WOERDEN
The Netherlands
E-mail: secretariat@ifapp.org
Phone: +31 6 2291 1039
Chamber of Commerce: 30224375
President Varvara (Barbara) Baroutsou (Greece)
Independent Consultant
President-Elect Eric Klaver (The Netherlands)
Eric was elected President-Elect in December 2023, filling a vacant seat. Eric is the representative from the Dutch member association, NVFG, in which organisation Eric has been a board member since 2021, and has since then chaired the ClinOps division of NVFG (2021-2024) and has functioned as vice-chair in the NVFG board.
Eric has spent 30+ years in the pharmaceutical industry. After studying medicine, the choice was made to opt for a career in this field. Eric has held many roles, amongst which data-manager, CRA, Project Lead, Program Manager and QA consultant. For almost 25 years Eric has worked as a clinical research trainer, 16 of those independent, and he added auditing to his portfolio about 8 years before ending his last independent stint. Since October 2021, Eric works for IQVIA, for 2 years as the DCT Regulatory Director, and currently as Director Information Governance and Privacy
Past President Marco Romano (Italy)
Until 31 October 2020 Dr Romano (MD, PhD, GFMD1) had, in his position of Executive Medical Director at Covance, full responsibility within the Medical Department including Clinical Development, Medical Support to Clinical Operations, Medical Monitoring and Medical Support to Pharmacovigilance Services. He left Covance and retired on 31 October 2020.
Dr Romano has over 30 years of pharmaceutical development experience, both in pharmaceutical companies and in clinical research organizations (CROs). He has successfully managed a number of Phase II, III and IV clinical trials, and, since 1998, has held senior management positions within the CRO sector such as Country Manager, Medical Director, and Chief Medical Officer.
Dr Romano obtained a diploma in Medicine at the University of Genoa (1983) followed by a post-graduate degree in Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health (1987), and another post-graduate degree in Clinical Pharmacology (1994). He is co-author of several scientific papers concerning mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of chemical compounds and glutathione metabolism.
Dr Romano has been a Member of the Italian Medical Association since 1983 and was President of the Italian Society of Pharmaceutical Medicine (SIMeF) from 2014 to 2020. He has been elected President of IFAPP for the period of 2020-2022.
1 GFMD: Global Fellow Medicines Development