Nawel Boukhatem has over 14 years experience within the pharmaceutical industry in regulatory Affairs across 4 different regions Middle East-Maghreb, Egypt & south  Africa & North Africa. Nawel is currently the Head of Regulatory Affairs for Middle East region and sitting in strategic discussion within ICMEA (India -Middle East-Maghreb, Egypt & south Africa, UCC & Turkey)  in Takeda pharmaceuticals  Company Limited (TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK) a global, values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader headquartered in Japan, committed to bringing Better Health and a Brighter Future to patients by translating science into highly-innovative medicines. Takeda focuses its R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Diseases, Neuroscience, and Gastroenterology (GI).

Before joining Takeda Pharmaceuticals company, Nawel was Regulatory Affairs Associate Director at Shire pharmaceuticals for MEA before Takeda acquisition of Shire .

Prior Shire Nawal was regulatory affairs at Baxter pharmaceuticals for 3 years.

• Nawal is a strong Regulatory Business Partner driver for results and a team player in any project she is part of it to enable different product launches and business expansion in fastest but in safer manner to help our patients across our countries access to innovative products ; being energetic self-motivated person who spreads positive energy in any team she is part of
• Nawal is knowledgeable & dedicated professional with very high level of accountability; result orientation and high attention to details,
• Nawal, inspired her colleagues and develop her team to perform at their best by building a positive work environment for talent development and growth, living their personal values in everything they did and giving back to patients,
• Always enjoy working with individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines including remote teams, learning new ideas and coaching others to address requirements from diverse stakeholder groups, including internal business partners, external suppliers and governmental organizations. Skilled negotiator in the multicultural global environment and in implementing global strategies.
• As an Ambitious leader who sets high standard of results for myself and my team and succeeds to get their engagement and commitment,
• excellent knowledge of pharma environment, regulations in Middle East and North Africa countries;