PEETERS Rita

Rita Peeters is since June 2016, Senior Director Regulatory Affairs Policy and Intelligence EMEA at Johnson & Johnson. In May 2011, she came back to JnJ as the Head of Regulatory Affairs for the Medical Devices & Diagnostics Marketing Operation companies in EMEA. Prior to joining J&J, she was Director of Clinical Research, Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management at Medtronic.

She started her career at the research department of Terumo Europe. During the following years, she was responsible for Clinical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Affairs and Process Excellence at CR Bard, and later, for the Electrophysiology division of Johnson & Johnson - Biosense Webster. Before joining Medtronic, she was Director Health Economics and Medical Affairs for the Sorin Group CRDM division in Paris.



Rita graduated as a Pharmacist from the Catholic University of Leuven and obtained also a degree in Industrial Pharmacy. She holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, a MBA from EHSAL European University College Brussels and a post-graduate in Health Economics from the University of York, UK.