Margaret Keegan

Margaret Keegan has over 25 years of biopharmaceutical industry experience, holding executive roles at large pharmaceutical and CRO companies. She has led statistics, programming, data management, late phase and clinical functions, and has worked in Europe and the United States.

Most recently, Ms. Keegan served as Chief Operating Officer at PRA Health Sciences. In this role, she led all operational functions globally in clinical development and was responsible for driving scalable change in the delivery organization through technology and data use as well as introducing lower cost labor options. In addition to being accountable for delivery, Ms. Keegan was responsible for growing key strategic accounts and led the General Partner team for key accounts. Ms. Keegan was also a member of the PRA Health Sciences Executive Committee. Prior to joining PRA Health Sciences, Ms. Keegan was President of Clinical Operations for IQVIA, where she led the delivery and growth of the clinical development business. At IQVIA she also held the role of President, Data Sciences. In addition, Ms. Keegan served in a variety of senior leadership positions, including Global Head of Data Management, Head of North America Clinical Operations, Global Head of Integrated Processes and Technologies, and Global Head of Enterprise Solutions Development. Ms. Keegan currently serves as Chair of the Board for CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium), which is the clinical research data standards board.

Ms. Keegan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the University of Strathclyde and is a Chartered Statistician.