Short biography

Alejandro Platt Orzáez received his degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Córdoba (Spain) in 2020. Alejandro joined the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as part of its traineeship programme in October 2020 within the Evaluation and Innovation Department of the EMA Veterinary Medicines Division. In this role he had the opportunity to work closely with the Head of EMA Veterinary Biologicals and Emerging Therapies Service contributing to a range of key regulatory tasks such defining the rules related to veterinary limited markets in liaison and cooperation with the European Commission for the revision of the legal framework for veterinary medicines. In September 2021, Alejandro joined the EMA Veterinary Strategic Support Office as change management support for the Veterinary Regulation 2019/06 programme contributing to the effective roll-out of the programme change management plan. In this role, Alejandro supports the development of training materials, delivery of training and coaching sessions with Member States, contribution to communication and awareness-raising activities to the programme stakeholders such as healthcare professional providers, veterinary pharmaceutical Industry and regulatory partners. Alejandro has recently joined the Union Product Database (UPD) Analytic Team at the EMA to contribute to the definition of data analytics methodology to leverage dissemination and integration of Veterinary Medicines information and contribute to the activities.