Mirjam Neelen is currently Head of Global Learning Design & Learning Sciences at Novartis. She has over 15 years of industry experience, working at a wide variety of companies. In her current role, she is responsible for the global learning design strategy and plan. Mirjam is a proud advocate for evidence-informed approaches to learning experience design and has a collaborative blog with Paul A. Kirschner on https://3starlearningexperiences.wordpress.com/. Together, they have also published a book on evidence-informed learning experience design. She presents about her work regularly.  She has completed an MSc in Learning Sciences, an MA in Psycholinguistics and a BA in Speech Therapy.