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2024 ISPE Singapore Affiliate Conference & Exhibition
28-30 August 2024 | Suntec Singapore & Online
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Jacques Morénas

Technical Advisor of the Inspection Division Director - ANSM, Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé

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Jacques Morénas was born in 1952 in Clermont-Ferrand (France) and carried out all of his studies there,
including obtaining his pharmacist diploma in June 1977. He then directly entered the Ministry of
Health and then passed the competition for become a pharmacist inspector in the field of Public
Health. After a year of study in the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health in Rennes (France), he
held different positions in this ministry, in offices in charge of the management of narcotics and then
drugs for veterinary use. In 1983, he joined the local inspectorate for Public Health in Paris (France)
until 1991. He then returned to the Ministry of Health, as deputy to the head of the pharmacist
inspectors corps.
In 1993, he joined the newly created drug agency. For over 25 years, he held various positions, still in
the field of inspection. In particular, for 18 years, he participated in the European construction of GMP
inspection and in the development of the "Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme (PIC / S)"
of which he was chairman for 4 years. He was also involved in the ICH Q9 and Q10 documents. He
finished his career (full time) as Deputy Director of the Inspection Division at the National Agency for
the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM), in July 2018. He is still working for ANSM on a
part time basis, as technical advisor for the Inspection Division, on European and international levels
like PIC/S and ICH. He is currently Deputy Chair of the PIC/S Committee of Officials as well as Chair of
the PIC/S sub-committee on training.

Jacques Morénas is also a member of the French National Academy of Pharmacy.