Vasilia Papagiannopoulou, GSK's Government Affairs and Market Access Director, has more than 15 years of experience in multinational pharmaceutical companies, in leading positions of increased responsibility. Prior to joining the corporate environment, she had worked as an Academic Researcher and Health Policy and Economics Advisor, within the framework of her collaboration with the School of Medicine, the School of Law, Economics and Political Sciences of the University of Athens, as well as the National Center for Social Research (EKKE) and IPOKE Research Institute, conducting numerous studies for European and National state agencies and pharmaceutical companies. She holds an MSc in Health and Social Policy and a BSc in Political Science and Public Administration, while she has more than 30 publications in international and Greek scientific journals and conferences.