David Long worked for Rhône Poulenc Health Division (now Sanofi-Aventis) in Quality Assurance (QA) for over twenty years, where he gained considerable experience in all three Good Practice disciplines: GLP, GCP, and GMP. When he left Rhône-Poulenc, he was Senior Director of R&D worldwide for Quality and Process Improvement. Mr. Long has since worked for CHIMEX, a manufacturing subsidiary of the L’Oréal group, and now runs his own consultancy company.
Mr. Long has always shown a keen interest in promoting professional QA activities. He was a founding member and President of the French QA Society and a founding member and President of the European QA Federation. He was also the founder and Chief Editor of the Quality Assurance Journal, an international scientific journal specifically addressing subjects of interest to R&D and QA personnel.
He has lectured and trained widely and has been an active participant in developing training in Good Practices and QA, working with a number of international groups, including the OECD and the WHO. His latest contribution through the WHO has been the co-authoring of a set of guidelines for research performed upstream of the regulatory scene, called Quality Practices in Basic Biomedical Research.
