Physician, specialized in General Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Medicine with over 30 years of experience in different senior medical, operational and managerial functions in pharmaceutical industry, CROs and clinical trial sites with focus on clinical trial design and management, ethical and regulatory aspects.

Since January 2003 she has her own pharmaceutical development and site management support consulting company.

Dr Klingmann is Chairman of the Board of the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP). On behalf of EFGCP she was and is involved in different FP7- and IMI-funded projects (ICREL, PatientPartner, PharmaTrain, EUPATI, Combacte-NET, PARADIGM and ConCEPTION) and with her company in the FP7-funded paediatric LENA project. Her broad professional background as physician with experience in patient care, clinical development, site management and patient engagement enables Dr Klingmann to bridge the gaps between the interests and skills of all different stakeholders in medicines development with the aim to develop new patient-relevant treatments more efficiently.

Dr Klingmann is also President of PharmaTrain Federation, the not-for-profit organisation focussing on global standardisation and improvement of post-graduate training in medicines development sciences. She also teaches on different clinical research and regulatory affairs topics in diploma and master courses at the University of Bonn, Germany, University of Basel, Switzerland, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.