It’s morning, there’s coffee and a curious postgraduate steps into a lunch-and-learn that will change everything. Pav Rishiraj remembers the moment he fell into pharmacovigilance a world of filing cabinets, meticulous case work and fast deadlines and the small risks that became the building blocks of a remarkable career.

Follow Pav from manual PSURs and late-night dossiers to leadership roles at global firms, through Brexit uncertainty and the leap into representing industry at the ABPI. Along the way he learns hard lessons about trust, mentorship and the discipline behind consistent performance and how impostor syndrome can turn into a quiet, steady courage.

Hear how Pav stitches technical mastery to human skills; communication, purpose and curiosity and why he believes the future of safety depends on pharmacogenomics, real-world data, and leaders who know when to zoom in and when to zoom out. This episode is a candid, fast-paced narrative about learning, risk and the small choices that shape a life in life sciences.