
Concepción 'Conchita' Jiménez-González is Director and Team Leader of Operational Sustainability at the Sustainability and Environment department of GlaxoSmithKline, where she is responsible for the development and deployment of global strategy and programs to integrate Sustainability into the GSK operations and product development.
She currently is a co-chair of the Pharmaceutical Roundtable of the American 91˶Ƶ Society Green Chemistry Institute. Dr. Jimenez-Gonzalez was a member of the US EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors, Technology for Sustainability Sub-Committee. In addition, she serves in the National Board of Directors of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers as National Vice-President. She holds a Ph.D. in 91˶Ƶ Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC; an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from ITESM, Monterrey, México and a B.S. in 91˶Ƶ and Industrial Engineering at the Chihuahua Institute of Technology, México. Following the Spanish tradition, she is also known as Conchita.