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Biographical Sketch
Dr. Conchita Jiménez-González
GlaxoSmithKline,
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Jiménez-González is Director and Team Leader of Operational
Sustainability at the Sustainability and Environment department of
GlaxoSmithKline, where she is responsible for the development and deployment of
global strategy and programs to integrate Sustainability into the GSK
operations and product development.
She currently serves in the
Governing Board of the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute
(ACS GCI) and co-chairs the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable. Conchita was
also member of the US EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors, Technology for
Sustainability Sub-Committee. In addition, she serves in the National Board of
Directors of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers as National
Vice-President.
She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering from North Carolina State University; Raleigh NC; an M.S. in
Environmental Engineering from ITESM; Monterrey, México and a B.S. in
Chemical and Industrial Engineering at the Chihuahua Institute of Technology,
México. Following the Spanish tradition, she is also known as Conchita.