Dr. William (Bill) Wang is an executive director, clinical safety statistics, Merck Research Laboratories. He has over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with ~18 years with Merck & Co Inc. He is co-chairing the ASA safety working group, and is a deputy topics-leader in the ICH E17 working group on multi-regional clinical trials. Dr Bill Wang was recently elected as a Fellow of American Statistical Association (2018) and received the DIA Global Inspire Award in 2017 .