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About Jeanne Ireland

Principal, Ireland Strategies, LLC

Since 2014, Jeanne Ireland has served as Principal of Ireland Strategies, LLC. Jeanne draws on more than 25 years of experience in health policy and federal government relations. Her past leadership roles on Capitol Hill, in the Executive Branch, and in patient advocacy provide clients with unparalleled depth and breadth of expertise in FDA politics, policy, and process.

As Associate Commissioner for Legislation and Senior Advisor to FDA Commissioner during the Obama Administration, Jeanne directed high-priority regulatory initiatives and served as the lead agency negotiator for several historic legislative efforts, including the reauthorization of FDA’s medical product user fee programs, drug supply chain safety legislation, reform of pharmacy compounding oversight, and food safety modernization. Before her tenure at FDA, Jeanne held senior congressional staff positions in both the House of Representatives and Senate. As Chief Public Health Advisor to former Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she oversaw legislative efforts to regulate tobacco products, improve the safety of the food supply, and increase oversight of imported medical products. As a Subcommittee Minority Staff Director for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), she led a successful effort to enact landmark legislation to improve the safety of children’s medicines and played a key role in the negotiation of legislation to reform FDA’s drug and device approval processes.

Jeanne also served as Director of Public Policy at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, managing the Foundation's global and domestic advocacy efforts on behalf of families impacted by HIV/AIDS. In 2001, she was awarded a fellowship with the Robert Bosch Foundation in Berlin, Germany, where she spent a year working with government and nonprofit leaders on work/life policies.