Effi Vandervoorde

Effi is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School (IN, USA) where she received her Juris Doctorate. Based in Beerse, Belgium, Effi joined Johnson & Johnson in 2016 as in-house Legal Counsel. The Beerse campus is one of the largest J&J R&D sites in the entire EMEA region. Effi advises and supports various R&D business units in several therapeutic areas (Neuroscience, Immunology, Oncology…) with EU government grants, negotiating public-private collaboration agreements (IMI, IHI), research funding agreements and advises on legal issues related to pharmaceutical R&D, life sciences, intellectual property, licensing agreements, data science (Federated models, RWE, AI, etc…), data sharing and privacy law, R&D supply chain and procurement. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Effi was in-house Legal Counsel at Ecover – Method Home (“People Against Dirty”), alongside other green consumer lifestyle brands, part of the SC Johnson family.