Francois (Swa) Vandeweyer

Company Owner, VDWcGMP Consultancy gvc, Belgium

Francois (Swa) Vandeweyer is the Company Owner of VDWcGMP Consultancy gvc based in Belgium. Swa joined Janssen Pharmaceutical (part of Johnson & Johnson) in 1981 and until 1995 had increasing responsibilities within the organisation, mainly in the Quality Control Unit. From 1995 he joined the Quality Assurance department. In 2005 was Senior Manager GMP Compliance Chemical Operations in Belgium, on sites Geel – Olen – Beerse. In 2009 was appointed as Director Global Compliance of EMEA and Asia Pacific for Johnson & Johnson.

Swa retired from J&J in May 2019 and formed his own consultancy. He is a member of APIC, was the Vice Chair of the APIC Quality Working Group involved in multiple GMP Compliance documents like ICH Q7 How to do, cleaning validation, supply chain integrity and many more.