Shigehiro Tahara

Shigehiro Tahara is a Senior Advisor on international pharmaceutical manufacturing facility engineering for CM Plus Corporation. Previously, he was Director of CM Plus Vietnam, and Director and Commissioner of CM Plus Consulting Indonesia. He joined CM Plus in 2008 and has led projects for drug production plants in Japan for over two decades. Since 2013, he has been engaged in drug manufacturing facility projects in Asia, including Vietnam and Indonesia. His robust expertise has covered aseptic drug manufacturing facility projects with design and construction of many pharmaceutical water systems, and experiences in EU-GM, cGMP, and PIC/S GMP. He has also published books on GMP engineering and is a leading Japanese engineer in validation and commissioning and qualification. He has provided engineering consultation backed by both pharmaceutical engineering and validation, and also taught ISPE seminars and conducted a number of GMP courses in Southeast Asia. He studied industrial chemistry engineering at Kumamoto University, Japan.