European experts

The European experts serve as members of EMA's scientific committees, working parties, shortages steering groups, Emergency Task Force and other groups. They provide scientific expertise to EMA's activities or perform compliance inspections on behalf of EMA. The experts fall within the scope of the policy on the handling of competing interests of scientific committees’ members and experts.

Member States or EMA nominate the experts and they are made available by the national competent authorities of the European Economic Area. This is part of working together in the European medicines regulatory network.

EMA requires the experts to sign a declaration of interests (DoI) every year. This is to ensure that they do not have any financial or other interests in pharmaceutical companies or medical device companies that could affect their impartiality.

Once EMA has assigned the DoI an interest level, and assessed the declared interests, an expert can be involved in EMA's activities. There are three interest levels:

1. No interests declared
2. Indirect interests declared
3. Direct interests declared

EMA also requires the experts to submit a curriculum vitae (CV). For more information, see handling competing interests. Please also see the specific privacy statement regarding the Experts database and the handling of competing interests of scientific committees’ members and experts.

The list contains each experts' annual DoI, with the assigned interest level, and CV, as well as the nominating authority of the expert. The list only includes experts who have submitted an up-to-date DoI.

EMA will make available previous declarations of interests and CV's, on request. Please submit such requests via Send a question to EMA.

For more information, see: 

• Committees, working parties and other groups
• Executive Steering Group on Shortages and Safety of Medicinal Products
• Executive Steering Group on Shortages of Medical Devices
• Emergency Task Force (ETF)

List of European experts