Speakers
2018 Speakers
Klaus Dugi
Chief Medical Officer, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Professor Klaus Dugi is Executive Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer at Ferring Phramaceuticals, a position he has held since October 2017. Professor Dugi is responsible for Global Medical Affairs, Quality Assurance and Pharmacovigilance. Prior…
Rachel Dunscombe
CEO, National Health Service (NHS) Digital Academy
Rachel Dunscombe is the CEO of the NHS Digital Academy leading learning in Digital Health for England and Scotland. She is also a visiting Professor at Imperial College Medical School as well as Director…
Ambassador Carlos Foradori
Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Offices in Geneva
Ambassador Carlos Foradori is the Permanent Representative of Argentina to the International Organization in Geneva, a position he has held in 2015. Previously, Ambassador Foradori was Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina and G-20…
Cristina González
Minister Counsellor, Mission of Uruguay to the UN in Geneva
Cristina González is Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the UN and other international organization, a position she has held since 2013. Previously, she served at the Mission of Uruguay to…
Anne Hassberger
Counselor, Agenda 2030 & Global Health, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Offices in Geneva
Anne Hassberger is a Counsellor on Global Health and Development at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN in Geneva. She has worked 13 years for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation,…
Dr. Tim Hawkins
Managing Director, Clinical Solutions, EMEALA & APAC, Elsevier
Dr. Hawkins is Managing Director for Clinical Solutions outside North America for Elsevier, an information analytics business. In his current role, Dr. Hawkins and his team focus on providing decision support tools to help…
Amanda Hosken
Head of Life & Health Hub EMEA, Swiss Re
Amanda Hosken is the Head Life and Health Hub for EMEA at Swiss Re, a position she has held since 2017. Previously, Hosken worked in the U.K. as consultant on merger and acquisitions, and…
Dr. Raymond Hutubessy
SENIOR HEALTH ECONOMIST, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
Dr. Raymond Hutubessy is a Senior Health Economist at the World Health Organization (WHO). Since its inauguration in 2007, Dr. Hutubessy has been responsible as the Executive Secretary of the WHO Immunization and Vaccines…
Jayasree K. Iyer
Executive Director, Access to Medicine Foundation
Jayasree K. Iyer is the Executive Director of the Access to Medicine Foundation, where she leads the strategic direction and stakeholder direction. Additionally, she directs the research programs of the Antimicrobial Resistance Benchmark, the…
Karin Kadenbach
MEP (S&D, Austria), Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, European Parliament
Karin Kadenbach is a Member of the European Parliament in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats as a member the Austrian Social Democratic party. She has been a Member of…
Professor Mukesh Kapila
CEO, The Defeat-NCD Partnership; Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester
Professor Mukesh Kapila is the Chief Executive Officer of the Defeat-NCD Partnership, a position he has held since January 2018. He is also Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of…
Jeremy Knox
Policy and Advocacy Lead, Drug-Resistant Infections Programme, Wellcome Trust
Jeremy Knox leads the Wellcome Trust’s Policy and Advocacy programme on antimicrobial resistance, as a key part of the organisation’s five-year, £175m commitment to support the global response to drug-resistant infections through integrated research…
Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
Dr. Aseem Malhotra is a UK NHS Consultant Cardiologist, as well as Visiting Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health in Brazil. As one of the most…
Marco Marsella
Head of eHealth, Well-being & Aging Unit, European Commission
Marco Marsella is Head of the eHealth, Well-being, and Ageing Unit in the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) at the European Commission. From 2016 to June 2018, Marsella led…
Dr. Carlos Mur de Viu
General Manager, Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada Madrid
Dr. Carlos Mur de Viu is General Manager of the Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada in Madrid, Spain, a position he has held since September 2014. He is a medical doctor and specialist in psychiatry.…
Alana Officer
Senior Health Advisor, World Health Organization (WHO)
Alana Officer is a Senior Health Advisor at the World Health Organization (WHO), where she oversees the WHO’s work on Age-Friendly Cities and communities combating ageism. Officer joined the Department of Ageing and Life…
Carlo Pettinelli
Director for Consumer, Environmental and Health Technologies – DG GROW, European Commission
Carlo Pettinelli is the Director of Consumer, Environmental and Health Technologies at Directorate-General (DG) for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) at the European Commission, a position he has held since 2015.…
Lois Privor-Dumm
Director, Policy, Advocacy & Communications, International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC)
Lois Privor-Dumm is the Director of Policy, Advocacy and Communications at the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She leads the initiatives for IVAC that support…
Professor Guido Rasi
Executive Director, European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Professor Guido Rasi is the Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a position he has held since 2015. Professor Rasi served as EMA’s Principal Adviser in Charge of Strategy from 2014 to…
Nina Renshaw
Policy & Advocacy Director, NCD Alliance
Nina Renshaw is the Policy and Advocacy Director at the NCD Alliance. She joined the NCD Alliance in July of 2018 after a decade of experience working on health, environmental and industrial policies at…
Michelle Rohrer
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Product Development Regulatory & Policy, Roche
Michelle Rohrer is Senior Vice-President and Global Head of Product Development Regulatory and Policy at Roche. In her current position, Rohrer leads the global Regulatory organization overseeing Roche’s regulatory development strategies and policy efforts…
Marcel Salathé
Head of Digital Epidemiology Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Marcel Salathé is Head of the Digital Epidemiology Lab and Associate Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a position he has held since 2015. Additionally, Salathé is Academic Director of the EPFL…
Dr. Rangarajan Sampath
Chief Scientific Officer, FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics)
Dr. Rangarajan Sampath is the Chief Scientific Officer at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), a position he has held since September 2017. Previously, Dr. Sampath was the co-founder of Ibis Biosciences and…
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
Deputy Director-General for Programmes, World Health Organization
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan is the Deputy Director-General for Programmes (DDP) at the World Health Organization (WHO). Most recently, Dr. Swaminathan was Secretary of the Department of Health Research and Director General of the Indian…
Angus Thomson
Head, Vaccination Confidence & Coverage, Sanofi Pasteur
Angus Thomson is Head of Vaccination Confidence and Coverage in Global Public Affairs at Sanofi Pasteur based in Lyon, France. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at…
Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger
Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations Offices in Geneva
Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger is the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations Office at Geneva, a position she has held since December 2017. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ambassador Tichy-Fisslberger served as…
Ambassador Adrian Vierița
Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations Offices in Geneva
Ambassador Adrian Vierița is the Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations Offices in Geneva. Previously, Ambassador Vierița was the Head of the United Nations Department in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.…
moderators
Laura Greenhalgh
Assistant Policy Editor, POLITICO
Katie Jennings
Health Reporter, POLITICO
Sarah Wheaton
Senior Health Reporter, POLITICO
Pascaline Minet
Head of Sciences Section, Le Temps
2017 Speakers
Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS
European commissioner for health & food safety, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Vytenis Andriukaitis was appointed European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety in November 2014. Before, he served as Lithuania’s Health Minister from 2012 to 2014. He was a Member of the Lithuanian Parliament for…
Helene Hellmark Knutsson
Minister for Higher Education and Research, SWEDEN
Helene Hellmark Knutsson has been Minister for Higher Education and Research of Swedish Government since 2014, and a politician in the Swedish Social Democratic Party. Hellmark Knutsson was formerly an ombudsman in the Swedish Trade Union…
José Inácio Faria MEP
Member on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee, European Parliament
José Inácio Faria is a Portuguese Partido da Terra MEP and member of the European People’s Party. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2014 and sits on several committees, including the Committee…
Daciana Sârbu
MEP and Vice Chair of the ENVI Committee, European Parliament
Daciana Sârbu is a Member of the European Parliament and Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), part of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D). She is…
Ain Aaviksoo
Deputy Secretary General for E-services and Innovation, Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia
Ain Aaviksoo is Deputy Secretary General for E-services and Innovation at the Ministry of Social Affairs in Estonia, overseeing digital transformation and innovation of social security in Estonia, including health, labor, and social matters.…
Nicola Bedlington
Secretary-General, European Patients' Forum
Nicola Bedlington joined the European Patients’ Forum as its first Executive Director in 2006 and became Secretary-General in 2014. In this capacity, she is the Coordinator of the European Patient Academy on Therapeutic Innovation…
Thomas Bombelles
Head NGO and Industry Relations, WIPO
Thomas Bombelles is Head, Non-Governmental Organizations and Industry Relation Section at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining WIPO, Bombelles worked in the pharmaceutical industry as an international policy…
Ilona Kickbusch
Director - Global Health Centre, GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Ilona Kickbusch is Director of the Global Health Centre and an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Her specialties include global health governance, health security, public health,…
Sally Davies
Chief Medical Officer, UK
Sally Davies was appointed Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Advisor to United Kingdom in 2010. She advises on medical matters with a particular focus on public health and providing leadership to…
Nina Renshaw
Secretary-General, European Public Health Alliance
Nina Renshaw joined the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) as Secretary-General in late 2014 after eight years at Brussels-based environmental group, Transport & Environment, where she was Deputy Director. She has campaigned on a…
Karl Brauner
Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization
Karl Brauner has been Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since 2013. Before, he was Director-General for external economic policy at the German Federal Ministry of Economics, where he was Germany’s member…
Henry Markram
Founder and Director, Blue Brain Project
Henry Markram is Project Director of the Blue Brain Project, Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Technology, and founder and co-Director of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s (EPFL) Brain Mind Institute. Markram founded…
Sinéad Hewson
Board Member, European Insitute of Women's Health
Sinéad Hewson is Board Member of the European Institute of Women's Health. Her background is in health and communications and she works with clients on how gender and diversity can increase performance in teams,…
Pascal Strupler
Director-General, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
Pascal Strupler has been Director-General of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) since 2010. In this role, he coordinates office business with departmental planning and ensures that the office, and in certain…
Päivi Sillanaukee
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
Paivi Sillanaukee has been Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland since October 2012. She has held various development and management positions within the public administration. In her current…
Line Matthiessen
Acting Director of the Health Directorate, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
Line Matthiessen is acting Director of the Directorate for Health, in the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission. Her responsibilities include providing overall strategic orientation and management of the Health Research…
Fumie Griego
Assistant Director-General, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations
Fumie Griego was appointed the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations’ (IFPMA) Assistant Director General for Strategic Planning, Policy and Research in early 2017. Griego leads IFPMA’s work on health economics and policy,…
Felix Frauendorf
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Aurora Health
Mark Pearson
Deputy Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
Mark Pearson is Deputy-Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He joined the Organization in 1992 and has held various positions throughout his tenure.…
David Nabarro
Sustainable Development Facilitator and former Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change
David Nabarro is currently Sustainable Development Facilitator. He has over 40 years of experience in public health, nutrition, and development work at the national, regional and global levels, and has held positions in non-governmental…
Alexander Natz
Secretary General, EUCOPE
Alexander Natz is Secretary General of the European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE) and works as a lawyer for the law firm, Novacos, in Dusseldorf. From 2008-2013, he was head of the German Pharmaceutical…
Peter Braun
Head of Global Access Strategy and Health Policy, Roche
Peter Braun is Head of Global Access Strategy and Health Policy at Roche in Switzerland. In this role, Braun is responsible for leading global health policy, product communications and access strategy across the organization.…
Suzy Elneil
Chair of the Board of Trustees, FORWARD and Consultant in Urogynaecology, University College of London, Institute of Women's Health
Sohier Elneil is a Consultant Urogynaecologist and Gynaecologist at University College Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. She started her career in the field of Urogynaecology in the early…
Bruno de Oliveira Alves
Policy Advisor, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Mihaela Militaru
Senior Director, EU Patient Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships, Oncology, Merck
Mihaela Militaru is Senior Director of EU Patient Advocacy, Strategic Partnerships and Oncology at Merck. Before joining Merck in 2016, Militaru was Director of the European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC), a European umbrella organization…
Peter Singer
Senior Advisor to Director General, World Health Organization
Peter Singer is Senior Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He is also Chief Executive Officer of Grand Challenges Canada and Professor of Medicine at…