Mercè Caturla is the Global Access and Regulatory Policy (Africa and WHO) Lead at Janssen. She is primarily responsible for leading and overseeing coherent and unified regulatory strategies to make medicines accessible in resource limited settings, Africa in particular. She participates in regulatory harmonization and policy advocacy efforts. She was the Chair of the IFPMA African Regulatory Network until March 2017. She studied Biology in Barcelona and did a PhD in Molecular Biology in Belgium.