Susan Winckler, RPh, Esq

Susan C. Winckler, RPh, Esq., is CEO of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration, a role she began in May of 2020. The Foundation is the non-profit organization created by Congress to advance the mission of the FDA. She has 30 years of experience in the FDA and healthcare community and has worked with members of regulated industry across FDA’s portfolio; with healthcare professionals, associations, patient organizations, consultants in this community; and other governmental and quasi-governmental organizations. She has served as chief of staff at the agency and in helping the commissioner and FDA navigate routine and emergent situations; leading the Food and Drug Law Institute to speak, write, and convene discussions of food and drug law issues; driving the policy, regulatory, and communications agenda of the American Pharmacists Association, and advising regulated industry (drug, device, biologic, and food companies) and others in the health care sector while at Leavitt Partners. Winckler earned a bachelor’s of science degree from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy and a law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. She can be reached at swinckler@reaganudall.org