Albert G.S. Liou

Albert Liou serves as Corporate Vice President and General Manager for Clinical Research Services in Asia-Pacific and is responsible for the overall business and operations for the region.

Before joining PAREXEL, Albert founded APEX International Clinical Research, which PAREXEL acquired in 2007. Under his leadership, APEX grew rapidly over nine years to become one of the largest CROs in the Asia-Pacific region with a presence in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia and India.

Mr. Liou has over 22 years of clinical research experience, of which 11 years were spent in the United States and 11 years in Asia. After working at Harvard Medical School as a Senior Statistician, he had a managerial role in biopharmaceutical Liposome Technology which later became part of Johnson & Johnson. He then worked at Amgen where he was a member of the senior management team, responsible for clinical data management. He then returned to Asia and founded APEX International which became a leading CRO in the Asia/Pacific region.

In addition to his professional responsibilities, Albert is an Advisor Committee member in the Development Center for Biotechnology of the Republic of China. He also has served as an Assistant Professor at Fu-Jen Catholic University since 2006.

Mr. Liou received a B.S. in Mathematics from Fu-Jen University in Taiwan, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics: Computer Science from Minnesota State University, and an M.S. in Statistics from Iowa State University.