Arani Chatterjee, MBBS, MPhil, PGCPM completed his graduation from CMC, Vellore and post-graduation from NIMHANS, Bangalore. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Management from IIM, Indore. Before joining Aurobindo Pharma, he was Senior Vice President, Clinical Research at Biological E, Hyderabad for 3 years, Panacea Biotec, New Delhi for 9 years and Princpial Research Physician at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (Discovery Research), Hyderabad for 6 years. He has an experience of over 22 years, is a visiting faculty at University of Pune and Institute of Clinical Research, member of Expert Committee for PG Diploma in Clinical Research at IGNOU, Academic Board of Studies, Institute of Clinical Research, Hindustan Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Sharda University and National Committee on Biotechnology of CII. He has served as a WHO Adviser for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. He is a member of several Brighton Collaboration groups for vaccine safety. His has participated in WHO SAGE and GVSI meetings, pre-IND meetings with USFDA, scientific advice meetings with BfArM (Germany), ANVISA (Brazil), Medsafe (New Zealand), ALIMS (Serbia), expert group meetings on Indian GCP guidelines and Schedule Y, National Technology Advisory Group on Immunisation, Asia Pacific Dengue Prevention Board Meeting under the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative of International Vaccine Institute and Pneumococcal Vaccines at UNICEF. He has authored 22 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a recipient of the 2012 Charles C. Shepard Award from CDC, Atlanta.