Montse Montaner is a visionary and strategically driven transformational leader with more than three decades of international experience across large pharma companies delivering excellence in Quality and Manufacturing Operations Management and Sustainability.

Her strong business acumen and deep operational understanding makes her very effective in defining how quality and sustainability can become a business accelerator to deliver and make a postive impact into the organization.

Montse has been the first Novartis Chief Sustainabilty officer and during this period she has designed the new company environmental sustainability strategy, to become a biopharmaceutical leader in environmental sustainability.

Prior to this appointment, Montse served as Novartis Chief Quality Officer, leading quality organization from research to commercial, where she transformed quality organization operating model through strong focus on compliance and data & analytics, productivity initiatives and digitalization. Previously to this role, she held different roles in Novartis and Sandoz where she was VP Quality Technical Operations, Third Party and CMO Quality head and Novartis Quality Management Systems & Control Operations Head.

Prior to Novartis, Montse worked for more than 15 years at Sanofi, where she held different leadership positions across the corporation.

Montse has received accolades for her work: she was awarded as 100 Top Women in Sustainability (Ranking #1 in Pharma and #46 cross-sector), awarded in the Sustainability Magazine's Top 100 Leaders Program and short list for the European Diversity Award due to her commitment on promoting diverse teams in their organizations.

Montse has a Bachelor in Pharmacy at Barcelona University with MsC on Pharmaceutical Technology. She has undertaken different leadership programs at Harvard Business School, Princenton University, IESE Business School and Cranfield School Management. She has also been professor at a Pharmacy School at Barcelona University for a period of 8 years.