Raid G. Alany is a registered New Zealand pharmacist. He received his Ph.D. in Ocular Drug Delivery from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in 2001. He was responsible for establishing the first pharmaceutics curriculum for the School of Pharmacy, The University of Auckland where he led the pharmaceutics team between 2007 and 2011. He continued to serve as an honorary professor at the University of Auckland. He joined Kingston University, London as Professor (Chair) of Pharmaceutics in January 2011 and was appointed as Research Director for the School of Pharmacy and Chemistry in December 2013. He was appointed as the Inaugural Head of the newly established School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy, and Chemistry on 1 June 2015. He is the Editor-In-Chief of Pharmaceutical Development and Technology (Taylor and Francis; 2021 IF 3.915). He served (for 9 years) as Section Editor for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology the official journal of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (2021 IF 4.383). He served on the editorial board of following journals: Scientia Pharmaceutica (2021 CiteScore 5.3), Pharmaceutics MDPI (2021 IF 6.525), Current Drug Delivery (2021 IF: 3.758) Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology (2021 IF 5.062), Drug Delivery Letters, Biomed Research International, Current Medical Research and Opinion (2021 IF 2.705), Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice. He holds international patents on human and animal medicines.