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Stefan Khler is a director of the Engineering department for the sterile manufacturing plant at AstraZeneca, Sweden Operations, Södertälje. This includes both common aseptic processing for freeze-dried vials and BFS technology. He started his working life as a senior-secondary schoolteacher, before becoming a technical design consultant for the pharmaceutical and process industry in Sweden in 1987. Stefan has had variety of leadership positions within technology and engineering at AstraZeneca Sweden Operations, and has extensive experience from both sterile and API production. At the start of 2000, Stefan established a new organization within AstraZeneca, focusing on clean room design and contamination control with respect to regulatory requirements and compliance. The new organization has developed a close collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). The collaboration has resulted in several research projects that have been published in the PDA Journal. Furthermore, he is a frequent speaker at PDA or R3-Nordic conferences.

He has spent the last 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry, specializing in the areas of sterile manufacturing, BFS Technology, Pharmaceutical utilities, Clean room design and Contamination Control. He is also a member of the PDA board since 2008.