Sarah Haake-Schäfer, Head of Global Regulatory Strategic Innovation

Sarah Haake-Schäfer represents strategic, international, and forward-thinking leadership in Regulatory Affairs. For many years, she has been guiding global Regulatory, Clinical, and Quality functions at Carl Zeiss Vision through complex regulatory processes and digital transformation initiatives – actively shaping the future of healthcare compliance.

Her mission is to empower people and organizations, and to create sustainable impact in the medical device industry. As a globally recognized expert in Regulatory Affairs, Quality Management, and Clinical Affairs, she combines deep technical expertise with visionary leadership.

Together with her teams, she develops digital systems, agile processes, and smart structures that meet regulatory requirements efficiently while enabling innovation. Sarah stands for a new generation of leadership in regulated environments – going beyond compliance to strengthen people and organizations and turning regulatory complexity into strategic opportunity.

Her work demonstrates how regulation can be used as a strategic lever for progress, enabling safe and sustainable innovation. As a speaker, lecturer, and member of national and international expert committees, she actively shapes the regulatory landscape.

Her talks are practical, inspiring, and strategically grounded – demonstrating how leadership, digitalization, and regulation can together pave the way toward better healthcare.

What matters to her:
"My mission is to turn regulation from a burden into an opportunity – through digitalization, enablement, and global strategies that accelerate innovation and sustainably improve healthcare."