Mauro Giusti
Senior Director, Parenteral Technical Knowledge at Eli Lilly and Company & President, PDA Italy Chapter
Dr. Mauro Giusti holds a Master Degree in Chemistry at University of Florence, he is Board Certified by National Chemist association and he is Board certified as Technical Director (Qualified Person) by the Italian Minister of Health.
After serving as Army Officer, he joined Eli Lilly at the Italy manufacturing plant site in 1988. Over the 34 years with Eli Lilly, Dr. Giusti has covered several positions within the Lilly Manufacturing organization (Regulatory, Technical Services, Project Management, QC, QA, Operations, Technical Director/Qualified Person, Six Sigma Champion, Science and Technology, Procurement), dealing both with Lilly manufacturing plants as well as with Contract manufacturing in the Europe/Africa/Asia
Among the several experiences with Lilly, he has worked in USA from 1992 to 1994 and in United Kingdom from 1997 to 1999.
Since late 2003, he has had responsibility for Lilly Italy TSMS (Technical Svcs/Mfg Science Department), with responsibility for Metrology, C&Q of facilities, utilities and equipment, Sterility Assurance, Process Validation, set-up of new manufacturing processes and of new manufacturing technology for Biotech products, including automatic assembly of disposable Insulin pens and Autoinjectors. In September 2009 he also added to his TSMS duties, the responsibility for Manufacturing Sourcing and Vendor Management.
In September 2019 he has taken a new role, as Senior Director, Site External Network, dealing with external entities linked to the Lilly Sesto Manufacturing site (Universities, Pharma Associations, etc..) and leading a Lilly Global project for improvement of technical capabilities in Parenteral Manufacturing.
For more than 17 years he has served as a member of the Italy Chapter of PDA, with several participations to national and international forum both as speaker and as chairman. In November 2019 he has been appointed as Co- Chair for the Process Validation Interest Group. In August 2020 he has been appointed to the PDA Science Advisory Board (SAB). In December 2021 he has been appointed President, PDA Italy Chapter.