Thomas Zimmer

ISPE
VP European Operations
Thomas Zimmer, PhD, is the Vice President of European Operations at ISPE. He previously served as Senior Vice President of the Corporate Division for Safety, Quality & Environmental Protection at Boehringer Ingelheim, where he worked from 1981 to 2015. During his tenure, he held various positions in pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, and management operations across the Americas and Europe. He also led the Project Production Alliance Europe and later became Head of Pharma Operations in France.

Thomas chaired the Anti-Counterfeiting Ad Hoc Group for nine years and was a member of the Scientific, Technical, and Regulatory Policy Committee (STPR) at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries Associations (EFPIA). He also chaired the Industry Advisory Board for the Institute for Packaging at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. At ISPE, he is a member of the International Leadership Forum (ILF) and serves on the board of the Pharmaceutical Security Institute (PSI), an organisation of major pharmaceutical companies dedicated to combating counterfeit medicines. Additionally, he actively participates in several global ISPE initiatives, including those focused on Drug Shortages.

Thomas is a member of the French Académie Nationale de Pharmacie (ANP) at the University of Paris. He studied pharmacy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, where he completed his doctoral thesis in pharmaceutical technology.