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Karen leads the global team of experienced, respected, award-winning journalists, analysts and custom content creators across all publications. Karen creates supportive and enabling environments for individuals and teams to realize their potential and achieve business goals. Karen joined the Citeline team in 2009 as a lead analyst of Pharma Therapy, Strategy and Innovation Market reports. She qualified as a pharmacist in South Africa in 2000 where she worked in retail and hospital settings before relocating to the UK in 2002. Karen spent six years at IQVIA, focused on patent expiration and generic opportunity.

Ian has been covering a broad range of topics across the Japanese and Asian pharma industry, including corporate, M&A, R&D, pricing and policy developments, since 1988. After a stint as Tokyo-based Japan and Asia editor for Scrip, in 2014 he became managing editor of PharmAsia News (now part of Scrip/Pink Sheet). In his current position, he directs regional coverage for Scrip and Pink Sheet and manages a multinational, on-the-ground team. Ian is a recipient of multiple internal and external awards and a regular participant in APAC conferences, webinars and events, and produces regular podcasts. He has spent the majority of his life in Asia, having grown up in Hong Kong, and enjoys cycling and music.

Nielsen has been covering the pharmaceutical industry most of his life, reporting on everything from ANDAs to Zika vaccines. He strongly believes that the user fee system needs to stop using Roman numerals. His favorite stories are ones that help readers understand the personalities and policies that dictate whether their regulatory strategy succeeds or fails. A regular contributor to the Pink Sheet podcast, he also creates infographics and editorial feature images for articles. Before joining Pink Sheet he worked for Congressional Quarterly. Nielsen frequently moderates webinars and panels at industry conferences, and enjoys discussing R2-D2 almost as much as he enjoys talking about 351(k).

Eleanor directs editorial content produced by the Commercial Pharma Insights team (Scrip, Generics Bulletin and In Vivo) in the US and Europe, liaising closely with counterparts in policy and regulatory coverage and in Asia. She oversees and contributes to daily analytical content based on biopharma industry developments and trends, interviewing key experts and industry leaders. Eleanor joined Citeline predecessor Informa in 2000 as companies reporter on Scrip, and has held a number of editorial roles on Citeline's pharma and medtech publications. She has interviewed countless industry leaders and specialists, explored business developments and strategy, pipeline trends, policy and regulatory stories, delved into M&A, licensing, partnerships, financing, financial reports, clinical trial updates, market trends and more. She regularly appears on conference panels and in the media to discuss matters relating to the biopharma industry. She has an MA in modern languages from the University of Edinburgh and previously worked as a translator of European business news for the Financial Times.

Indranil leads a team of experienced, respected, award-winning journalists and content creators in India for Citeline’s News & Insights publications. He brings over eight years of experience from Reuters, where he most recently served as Editor-in-Charge of the India company breaking news file. He led real-time coverage of high-impact corporate developments, including major mergers and acquisitions, executive appointments, regulatory actions, and market-moving events across sectors in Asia’s third-largest economy. Over the course of his career at Reuters, Indranil also reported on financial and business news across a wide range of geographies, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and India. He briefly headed a Reuters data journalism initiative in partnership with Google, exploring new frontiers in technology-enabled reporting. When he’s not donning his journalist hat, Indranil finds joy in capturing the soul of rural India through his photography—a passion that has earned him national recognition. Outside the newsroom and behind the lens, he’s often found on the football field, behind a drum kit, or cruising down quiet highways with his golden retriever, Maximus, by his side.