Bob Adamson is Manager of Pharmaceutical Compliance with Foster Wheeler in Reading, U.K., where he is responsible for all compliance and validation services. Adamson has more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry including positions with Foster Wheeler, Beecham, and Glaxo, and experience in R&D, production management for APIs, and sterile manufacturing. He has been responsible for the start-up of new facilities and a number of major refurbishments. He is a Chartered Chemist and Chartered Engineer. At Foster Wheeler his recent experience has included compliance and regulatory topics, validation of oral and sterile dosage forms, and biotechnology and API facilities to meet EU, FDA and MHW requirements. He worked with a wide variety of clients and on occasions has represented them at FDA meetings. Adamson is an active Member of ISPE and has written and presented a number of papers and contributed to a number of books. He has been involved with ISPE’s commissioning and qualification initiative since its conception. He was elected U.K. Fellow of the Year in 2003 and has been past chair of the U.K. Southern Region.