Paola Testori Coggi has been President of the Committee for price and reimbursement of the Italian Medicines Agency from 2015 to 2018.

Previously she has done her career within the European Commission where she entered in 1983 in the environmental sector and held various posts in the area of health, food safety, consumer protection and research.

She has been Director General for health and consumer until 2014; among her achievements, the legislation on cross-border health care and on pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and the promotion of health as an investment for growth, the White Paper on food safety, the creation of the European Food Safety Authority.

Paola Testori Coggi is a biologist from the University of Milan, Italy, with a Master degree in Ecotoxicology.