Co-optees to the TOPRA Board of Directors

The TOPRA Board of Directors  plays a key role in shaping our strategy and ensuring that we are delivering the very best support for our members and the wider global regulatory affairs community. The Directors’ valued knowledge, skills and experience provide us with the leadership we need in order to support the profession and help it grow. However we also need to ensure that the diverse range of voices that make up today’s profession are heard and represented.

As signatories to the Science Council Declaration on Diversity , we are committed to encouraging diversity and inclusivity throughout our organisation, which is why we are appointing two co-optees to our Board of Directors for a period of 12 months. Unlike the Directors who are elected, co-optees are appointed by the Board to contribute specific experience and skills and invited to Board meetings to share their views.

We want to involve individuals from TOPRA’s voting members who reflect the changing demographic of the regulatory affairs profession and can bring fresh perspective to the way the Board thinks. To help us broaden its representation, we actively encourage applications from minority ethnic candidates, people with disabilities, who identify as non-binary, and men.

Unlike full Board members, co-optees will not have voting rights or legal responsibilities but they will be able to positively influence TOPRA’s future direction, and gain experience that will assist with career development and even a future application for a Board position.

If you are interested in becoming a future co-optee and would like to find out more, then please email our Chief Executive Kevin Pay with your CV and an initial supporting statement.

Kevin Pay, TOPRA Chief Executive, on equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging:

TOPRA is an open organisation and wants to be sure that all regulatory professionals, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, geographical location or physical capability, can take advantage of our member services and training or volunteering opportunities. We will identify any areas in which there are barriers and address them, and hope that our members will feel able to tell us where we could do better.”