Veleka R. Peeples-Dyer is chair of the North America Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Practice Group for Baker McKenzie and a member of the Firm's North American Healthcare & Life Sciences Steering Committee. In over 24 years as an attorney, she has spent over 20 years providing substantive, strategic and practical legal, regulatory, and compliance advice and counsel to biopharmaceutical companies around the world. Veleka is involved in many diversity and inclusion initiatives and was recently awarded a 3 year appointment to the Corporate Counsel Women of Color Advisory Board (CCWC), which is a non-profit organization committed to promoting the career advancement of in-house women of…