Dr. Peter Dunn
Green Chemistry Lead at Pfizer, UK
Peter Dunn completed his PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry at Imperial College, London in1987 with Professor Charles Rees. He undertook post doctoral research studies at the ETH, Zurich with Professor Albert Eschenmoser and at the University of California Berkeley, with Professor Henry Rapoport. From 1989-2000 he worked in Chemical R and D at Pfizer in the UK as a project scientist and during this time was the inventor of the commercial processes to make four drugs including ViagraTM and EmselexTM Between 2000 and 2006 he was Director of Chemical Research and Development in the UK. In 2006 he took up his current role as the Global Green Chemistry Leader for Pfizer. In 2008 and 2009 he was co chair of the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable and in 2010 he joined the editorial board of the journal Green Chemistry and became a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
