Associate Director, Strategy Implementation & Business Transformation
AstraZeneca
Rebecca Lebeaux, PhD is an Associate Director of Strategy Implementation and Business Transformation at AstraZeneca, and a key enabler of the AI scale-up program. Leveraging her unique outside-in perspectives and passion for being a change agent for data, Rebecca propels multiple enterprise-wide generative AI initiatives including prompt upskilling, use case value assessment, and portfolio management.
Prior to joining AstraZeneca, Rebecca worked in Inhouse Consulting at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, leading impactful R&D portfolio data science strategy initiatives. She has previously presented on the value-add of generative AI solutions across R&D at the Generative AI Europe 2023 conference and on powering generative AI transformation through prompting mastery at Bio-IT World 2025.
Rebecca holds a PhD in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences from Dartmouth College, an interdisciplinary data science program.