Sandra Ligia has hold diverse management and directive positions at Regulatory Affairs, Sales, Marketing, Business Development and R&D for various countries in Latin America and Turkey. Her experience covers from public institutions such as the National Institute of Nutrition in Mexico, to Global Companies such as Baxter, Danone and Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices where she held a Regulatory Affairs Senior Manager Position for Colombia and Mexico; she led the Regulatory Affairs Committee at AMID (Mexican Association of Innovative Medical Devices Industry) in 2016 and 2017. She acted as Chair of AdvaMed’s Latin American Regulatory Affairs work since 2017 and is currently serving as Executive Secretary Inter-American Coalition for Regulatory Convergence in the Medical Technology Sector, which unifies its 18 largest industry bodies in the Western Hemisphere and she also leads the Tier 2 Component of the Medical Device Regulatory Convergence, COVID-19 Project (MDRC), under the USAID – ANSI Standards Alliance initiative, which encompasses work with various countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Sandra holds a bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and Food Science and a Diploma on Product/Brand Management, both by Universidad Iberoamericana and a Diploma on Enterprise Top Management by IPADE (Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas).