Professional Profile
Dr. Martha Leal is a senior toxicologist and regulatory scientist in ToxStrategies’ Health Sciences practice. She has over 30 years of experience supporting product safety, regulatory compliance, toxicology, and post-market surveillance programs, having led scientific organizations across cosmetic, consumer product, tobacco, pharmaceutical, and emerging technology domains. With a proven record of building product safety organizations, developing product safety strategies, advancing regulatory science, supporting regulatory submissions, integrating post-market surveillance, and enabling innovation through evidence-based toxicology and strategic leadership, Dr. Leal brings a wealth of expertise to complex regulatory and consumer safety projects.
Before joining ToxStrategies, Dr. Leal served in leadership positions within major global cosmetic and consumer product corporations, providing strategic oversight of product safety, regulatory sciences, and risk management programs. She established and transformed scientific functions, led global teams, and guided, safety, regulatory and post-market initiatives across multiple regions. Her expertise includes organizational development, stakeholder engagement, scientific governance, executive-level decision support, and commercialization strategies supporting product innovation and market access. She also brings extensive experience supporting regulatory and commercialization strategies across Latin America.