Despoina Samara

Legal Director, Greece at GSK

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Despoina Samara is Legal Director for GSK Greece. She has been with the company for seven years. Prior to joining GSK as an inhouse lawyer, Despoina was working as a senior lawyer for a Greek law firm, for ten years, specializing in health care law, advising most of the Greek and multinational pharmaceutical companies operating in Greece. She has also represented pharmaceutical companies before the Greek civil and administrative courts, as well as the Hellenic Competition Commission. Despoina has worked as a research assistant for the Department of Health and Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Sciences as well as did her stage with the European Commission General Directorate of the Internal Market – Industrial Property Unit. She holds a PhD in pharmaceutical law and a LLM in commercial and corporate law, both from King’s College (University of London).