Karen Taylor (Ginsbury)

Karen Taylor (Ginsbury), M.Sc., B.Pharm., MRPharmS, is a highly respected pharmaceutical quality and GMP expert with over two decades of senior experience across the global biopharmaceutical industry. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy and a Master’s degree in Microbiology from the University of London and began her professional career in R&D at Smith & Nephew in the UK. After relocating to Israel, she spent seven years at Teva, where she established the company’s Compliance Department and built foundational quality and regulatory frameworks. Karen later founded PCI – Pharmaceutical Consulting Israel Ltd., which for more than 14 years has provided consulting, auditing, and training services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and API manufacturing companies worldwide. Her work focuses on regulatory compliance, quality system design and improvement, supplier and CMO audits, and resulting readiness for FDA, European, and Canadian inspections. Karen is also the author of a professional book on inspection readiness published in the United States and widely used by multinational companies and regulatory authorities, including the FDA. A sought-after international lecturer, she is known for her dynamic, practical, and engaging teaching style and has received multiple global speaking awards, including IVT’s “Presentation of the Year” (2006) and “Web Seminar of the Year” (2007). She actively contributes to the pharmaceutical community through volunteer leadership roles within the Israeli PDA chapter and ongoing work on GMP technical documentation for clinical trial manufacturing.