Amela Saračević graduated with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2005. This was followed by a master’s degree in 2013 and a further period of specialisation in the quality control of medicines, which she successfully defended in 2015. Amela joined the Agency for medicinal products and medical devices of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005, where she worked in the Official Medicines Control Laboratory (OMCL) as a senior advisor for physico-chemical and instrumental analysis. She began working at the EDQM in 2014, first in the Biological Standardisation, OMCL Network and Healthcare Department (DBO) before joining the European Pharmacopoeia Department (EPD) in 2017 as a scientific programme manager in the Chemically Defined Substances, Finished products, General Chapters & Herbals Division. Amela is responsible for the elaboration of monographs on APIs and medicinal products with chemically defined APIs and for the work programme of the group of experts dealing with inorganics. She is also involved in the work of the Analytical Quality by Design Working Party.

Suzanne Henderson holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Kingston University, UK (1988). She became a Chartered Public Finance Accountant in 1992 whilst working in finance and accounting for a regional council in the UK. She subsequently worked for Ernst & Young as a senior consultant specialising in performance improvement. Suzanne also worked for a brief spell for another UK regional council in a Chief Executive’s Office, focussing on strategic development and performance improvement before joining the EDQM as a finance assistant in 2001. Since then, she has held several roles at the EDQM support teams and became Head of the Administration and Finance Division in 2007. This role included leading the human resources team, which resulted in Suzanne becoming an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.