Head of Business Development and Regulatory Policy, knoell Germany GmbH
José Joao Carvalho is Head of Business Development and Regulatory Policy at knoell Germany GmbH, an independent service provider for Regulatory Affairs and Product Registrations in the market for more than 20 years. With his regional teams, José is looking after new regulatory policies and guidance development in the different regions, focusing on regulatory frameworks impacting agriculture, crop protection and plant nutrition. Previously he worked as European Regulatory Manager for crop protection products, coordinating active ingredient and product’s dossiers for approval by national regulatory agencies in different regions. José holds a PhD in Environmental Chemistry by the Humboldt University in Berlin and a Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences by Porto University in the field of animal immunology. Before joining the private sector in 2011, he was a researcher at the German Federal Institute for Materials Science and Testing (BAM)