Gabriela Lazar has wide experience of international negotiations in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and retail sectors. Born in Romania, she graduated in Pharmacy from the Bucharest Institute of Medicine & Pharmacy, having achieved the highest ever marks in the competitive entrance examination. After the fall of the communist regime Gabriela left Romania and went to Paris, where she obtained a PhD with Written Congratulations of the Jury, winning a prize for the best PhD in Pharmacology. She worked in a pharmaceutical research laboratory in parallel with her studies, becoming Head of Skin Care Evaluation, and co-authored four international patents. Gabriela then worked in the UK, Germany and France in international Business Development roles in the healthcare industry. She was involved in negotiating licensing agreements and acquisitions and disposals of companies and products internationally. She also successfully negotiated a number of complex distribution contracts while leading a team responsible for the integration across much of Europe of a major acquired product range.
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