Reinhard Busse
Professor Dr. Reinhard Busse MPH FFPH is professor and department head for health care management at Technische Universität Berlin. Besides being one the Observatory's Associate Head of Research Policy and Head of the Berlin hub, he is a member of several scientific advisory boards and a regular consultant for WHO, the EU Commission, OECD and other international organizations within Europe and beyond as well as national health and research institutions. His research and publications focus on the methods and the contents of comparative health system analysis (with a particular emphasis on the reforms in Germany, other social health insurance countries and central and Eastern Europe, role of EU), health services research including cost-effectiveness analyses, health targets, and health technology assessment (HTA).

John-Arne Røttingen MD PhD MSc
Chief Executive, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Norway. John-Arne Røttingen is the founding director of the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services that was established in 2004. The centre is scientifically and professionally independent and reports to the Directorate for Health. Its roles are to do knowledge synthesis (systematic reviews and health technology assessments), run a national electronic health library, develop performance measurements, and promote and support quality improvement, patient safety and evidence based practice. He has previously worked as an associate professor/thematic leader at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, and as research coordinator at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health. At the University he headed the Centre for Prevention of Global Infections, and established a MD PhD programme. He has been Norway Oxford Scholar at Wadham College, Oxford University and has been working at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Oxford and at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, London. He is an affiliate of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, WHO Euro, Board member of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHSPR), member of the Executive Committee of the European network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) and member of the Scientific Oversight Group (SOG) of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, Seattle. He holds an MD and a PhD from the University of Oslo and an MSc from Oxford University.

Finn Boerlum Kristensen, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman of the Executive Committee, European Network for Health Technology Assessment, EUnetHTA, and Director of the Coordinating Secretariat, National Board of Health, Denmark.. Adjunct professor in health services research and health technology assessment at University of Southern Denmark from 1999. Formerly Director of Danish Centre for Health Technology Assessment (DACEHTA), National Board of Health, Denmark 1997 ­ 2009. University graduate in medicine. PhD in Epidemiology. Specialty in General Practice. Specialty in Public Health. International projects in the areas of health services research, epidemiology, health technology assessment, and clinical practice guidelines since 1980ies. Chairman International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA) 2003 -06. Project Leader of EUnetHTA, 2006-08 (www.eunethta.net). Editor of Health Technology Assessment Handbook (English, translated from Danish), 2007 and chief editor of three peer reviewed publication series from DACEHTA 1998 ­ 2009. Member, UK NHS HTA Programme Advisory Group since 2005. Chair, Scientific Council, Ludwig Bolzmann Institute of Health Technology Assessment, Austria since 2007.

Kalipso Chalkidou
Kalipso Chalkidou is the associate director of research and development at NICE, where she is responsible for the planning and delivery of a research and development agenda to support the production of cost-effective clinical and public health guidance. She has led on a number of methodologies and clinical guidance projects, including disinvestment guidance, the evaluation of fast-track appraisals of technologies closer to licensing, and the update of NICE’s social value judgments used by NICE Committees. Dr. Chalkidou in 2007 spent a year in the US as a Harkness fellow in health policy and practice working on coverage with evidence development at the Center for Medical Technology Policy and on drug pricing policies at the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Before joining NICE, Dr. Chalkidou held posts as a clinical research fellow at the University of Newcastle Medical School and surgical trainee in NHS hospitals in Newcastle and Cambridge. She has authored peer-reviewed articles in basic science, clinical medicine and health policy, including the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, and Health Economics, as well as a book chapter on economic evaluation in public health. Dr. Chalkidou graduated with distinction from the Athens Medical School in 2000 and has a doctorate in the molecular biology of prostate cancer from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (2003). She is an honorary lecturer in health policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and was recently awarded a two year grant from the Sasakawa Foundation to study applications of pharmacoeconomics in Japan.

Bernard Gibis
Bernhard Gibis is heading the department for service contracts and pharmaceuticals at the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance physicians (KBV) in Berlin, covering the fields of health information, knowledge, evidence and research. He qualified as an MD in Germany and specialized in gynaecology and obstetrics, in addition to which he holds a Masters degree in Public Health. His expertise is in the field of evidence based health care covering in particular the areas of evidence informed decision and policy making (i.e. guidelines, health technology assessment), quality assurance (i.e. quality indicators, quality management) and knowledge management (i.e. communities of practice, organizational support tools). Before taking up his responsibilities at KBV, he worked for Canadian national (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Institute of Health Economics) and provincial institutions (Alberta Heritage Foundations for Medical Research) and headed a department for health intelligence at the regional office for Europe of the World Health Organization in Copenhagen. He is a member of acknowledged societies of the field, member of the scientific boards of respective journals and serves as advisor to national and international research projects.

Kristian Lampe
Kristian Lampe graduated as MD from the University of Tampere, Finland, in 1994. Further studies in hypermedia design in 1995-1996. He has worked as a physician mainly in general practice (1992-1996), as internet designer in the Helsinki University Hospital (1996) and as project manager in the Helsinki Telephone Company (1996, healthcare applications). Since 1997 he works in the Finnish Office for Health Technology Assessment, currently as senior medical officer. Main areas of work include EUnetHTA, HTA communications and quality of online health information.

Nicholas Mays
Nicholas Mays has been Professor of Health Policy in the Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London) since 2003. He is currently Head of the HSRU. Since 2003 he has spent approximately three months each year as a policy adviser to both the New Zealand Ministry of Health and the State Sector Performance Branch of the NZ Treasury. From 1998 to 2003 he was principal adviser in the Health and Cross-Sector Strategy Sections in the Social Policy Branch of the New Zealand Treasury. From 1994 to 1998 he was Director of Health Services Research at the King’s Fund, London. He directed the Health and Health Care Research Unit in the Queen’s University of Belfast from 1991 to 1993. Before then he held a variety of research posts in the Universities of London (St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School) and Leicester, in government agencies and in the National Health Service.

Corinna Sorenson
Corinna Sorenson is a Research Officer at LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also serves on the Executive Committee of the European Health Technology Institute for Socio-Economic Research (EHTI). Prior to joining LSE, she held senior-level positions at the US Food and Drug Administration and The Lewin Group, a health care research and policy consulting firm. She has also conducted research at Stanford University and the University of Michigan Health System. Corinna holds a Master of Public Health and a Master of Health Services Administration, with emphases in health policy and health economics, from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health. Main areas of research include health technology and public health policy, economic evaluation, access to medicines, and global health governance and politics.

Katharina Hoelzle
Katharina Hoelzle is a post-doc candidate at the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management at the Technische Universitaet Berlin. She has worked for several years in the semiconductor, consulting, and eBusiness industry before returning to university. She still advises companies on questions of strategic innovation and technological management. Her research interests are informal roles in innovation management, i.e. promotors and champions of innovation and structures for successful innovation as well as career path models for project managers and instruments of technological foresight. Mrs. Hoelzle has published several articles in the field of informal and formal roles in innovation management as well as barriers to innovation. Her Ph.D. thesis deals with career path models for project managers in large corporations. Her work is published in Creativity and Innovation Management, Schmalenbachs Business Review, RD Management and other noted refereed journals