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Under William Jefferson Clinton’s leadership, the country enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs.

After leaving the , President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation with the mission to improve , strengthen economies, promote health and wellness, and protect the environment.

In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton has served as the top United Nations envoy for the Indian Ocean tsunami recovery effort and as the UN Special Envoy to . Today, the Clinton Foundation is supporting economic growth, capacity building, and .

President Clinton was born on , 1946, in Hope, . He and his wife Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and live in Chappaqua, New .

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & in Healthcare Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. 47th Vice President of the United States

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., represented Delaware for 36 years in the U.S. Senate before the 47th Vice President of the United States.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., was born November 20, 1942, in Scranton, , the first of four siblings. In 1953, the Biden family moved from Pennsylvania to Claymont, Delaware. He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School and served on the New Castle County Council. Then, at age 29, he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the .

Just weeks after the election, tragedy struck the Biden family when Biden’s wife, Neilia and their one-year-old daughter, Naomi, were killed and their two young sons critically injured in an auto accident. Vice President Biden was sworn in to the U.S. Senate at his sons’ hospital bedside and began commuting to Washington every day by train, a practice he maintained throughout his career in the Senate.

In 1977, Vice President Biden married Jill Jacobs. Jill Biden, who holds a Ph.D. in Education, is a life-long educator and currently teaches at a community college in Northern Virginia. The Vice President’s son, Beau, was Delaware’s Attorney General from 2007-2015 and a Major in the 261st Signal Brigade of the Delaware National Guard. He was deployed to Iraq in 2008-2009. Beau passed away in 2015 after battling with brain cancer with the same integrity, courage, and strength he demonstrated every day of his life. The Vice President’s other son, Hunter, is an attorney who manages a private equity firm in Washington, D.C. and is Chairman of the World Food Program USA. And his daughter Ashley is a social worker and is Executive Director of the Delaware Center for Justice. Vice President Biden has five grandchildren: Naomi, Finnegan, Roberta Mabel (“Maisy”), Natalie, and Robert Hunter.

As a Senator from Delaware for 36 years, Vice President Biden established himself as a leader in facing some of our nation’s most important domestic and international challenges. As Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for 17 years, then-Senator Biden was widely recognized for his work on criminal justice issues, including the landmark 1994 Crime Act and the Violence Against Women Act. As Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years, then-Senator Biden played a pivotal role in shaping U.S. foreign policy. He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.

As the 47th Vice President of the United States, continued his leadership on important issues facing and represented our country abroad traveling over 1.2 million miles to more than 50 countries. Vice President Biden convened sessions of the President’s Cabinet, led interagency efforts, and worked with Congress in his fight to raise the living standards of middle class Americans, reduce gun violence, address violence against women, and end cancer as we know it.

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Joe Kiani Founder & Chairman, Patient Safety Movement Foundation; Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Masimo

Joe Kiani runs one of the world’s most admired medical technology companies, is an inventor of world-changing noninvasive patient monitoring devices, a trusted voice for patient safety and care, and a convention-breaking maverick. As the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Masimo, a global medical technology innovator, Mr. Kiani has been a beacon for patient safety and innovation in healthcare for more than 25 years. Convinced that the use of adaptive signal processing could solve the problems of motion artifact and noise that plagued pulse oximetry—widely recognized as the 5th vital sign—he founded Masimo in 1989 to improve patient outcome and reduce the cost of care by taking noninvasive monitoring to new sites and applications.

Under his leadership, Masimo has grown from a “garage start up” into a successful publicly traded company (NASDAQ: MASI) employing more than 3,500 people worldwide and providing its technology and clinical-leading Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry technology directly and through leading OEM patient monitoring manufacturers. Today, Masimo is an innovative powerhouse delivering key noninvasive medical breakthroughs, including: rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry™—the first blood constituent monitoring platform to measure multiple blood constituents noninvasively that previously could only be measured invasively and help clinicians improve patient safety and reduce cost of care. Masimo also introduced wearable rainbow SET Radius-7 as well as the bedside rainbow SET Radical-7 and Patient SafetyNet™—the first remote monitoring and wireless clinician notification system shown to help hospitals improve patient safety and clinical outcomes by dramatically decreasing rescue events and costly ICU transfers. Patient SafetyNet is helping hospitals save lives in places like the post-surgical wards where reliable monitoring was not feasible before due to excessive false alarms. With Root’s new open architecture, cockpit and connectivity hub patient monitoring platform, clinical distraction, complexity and cost are expected to decrease and innovation in patient monitoring are expected to accelerate. Mr. Kiani and Masimo have helped to solve the “unsolvable” problems plaguing patient monitoring through significant inventions with more than 600 issued and pending patents worldwide.

Committed to patient safety, Mr. Kiani founded the Patient Safety Movement Foundation in 2012 and the World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) has the goal of eliminating preventable deaths by 2020 in the US, and to significantly reduce preventable deaths in hospitals worldwide. Under Mr. Kiani’s leadership, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation has been able to get over 60 companies to make the pledge to share their data with whoever can use it to make patients safer. Patient Safety Movement is expecting the data sharing pledges will help create a new ecosystem of predictive algorithms, tapping into the individual patient data superhighway, to help clinicians save more lives. In addition, over a dozen Actionable Patient Safety Solutions have been created to help hospitals implement processes to avoid human errors becoming fatal to patients. The Patient Safety Movement has convened hundreds of leading clinicians, hospital CEOs, medical technology CEOs, and government officials from around the globe to work together towards the goal of zero preventable deaths by 2020. Today, PSMF has over 1700 hospitals from around the world that have committed to patient safety. In January 2016, the hospitals that had joined Patient Safety Movement reported 24, 643 lives saved annually.

Joe Kiani also leads Cercacor Labs, a spinoff company from Masimo, and serves on the Board of Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Chapman University’s President’s Cabinet, SDSU’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, Clinton Foundation Executive Council, MDMA Board, Masimo Foundation of Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare, and is an angel investor and sits on some of the Boards of promising start-up companies with unique positive lifesaving and societal consequences.

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS 17th Surgeon Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006); Distinguished Professor, University of

Born to a poor Hispanic family in City, Dr. Carmona experienced homelessness, hunger, and health disparities during his youth. The experiences greatly sensitized him to the relationships among culture, health, education and economic status and shaped his future.

After dropping out of high school, Dr. Carmona enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967. While serving, he earned his General Equivalency Diploma and went on to become a combat-decorated Special Forces Vietnam veteran. After leaving active duty, he attended Bronx Community College of the City University of New York through an open enrollment program for veterans. He received an associate of arts degree. He then attended the University of California, San Francisco, where he received a degree (1977) and medical degree (1979). At the University of California Medical School, Dr. Carmona was awarded the prestigious gold-headed cane as the top graduate.

Trained in general and vascular surgery, Dr. Carmona also completed a National Institutes of Health-sponsored fellowship in trauma, burns, and critical care. Dr. Carmona was then recruited jointly by the Tucson (Arizona) Medical Center and the University of Arizona to start and direct Arizona’s first regional trauma care system. He went on to become the chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System, a professor of surgery, and family and community medicine at the University of Arizona, and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department surgeon and deputy sheriff. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Public health came as a second career after Dr. Carmona went back to graduate school while working in order to complete a master’s degree in public health at the University of Arizona. His interest in public health stemmed from the realization that most of his patients’ illnesses and injuries were completely preventable.

Dr. Carmona has also served for over 30 years with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Tucson, including as deputy sheriff, detective, SWAT team leader and department surgeon. He is one of the most highly decorated police officers in Arizona, and his numerous awards include the National Top Cop Award, the National SWAT Officer of the Year, and the National Tactical EMS Award. Dr. Carmona is a nationally recognized SWAT expert and has published extensively on SWAT training and tactics, forensics, and tactical emergency medical support. Dr. Carmona has also served as a medical director of police and fire departments and is a fully qualified peace officer with expertise in special operations and emergency preparedness, including weapons of mass destruction.

In 2002 Dr. Carmona was nominated by the president and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to become the 17th Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Carmona was selected because of his extensive experience in public health, clinical sciences, health care management, preparedness, and his commitment to prevention as an effective means to improve public health and reduce health care costs while improving the quality and quantity of life.

As Surgeon General, Dr. Carmona focused on prevention, preparedness, health disparities, health literacy, and global health to include health diplomacy. He also issued many landmark Surgeon General communications during his tenure, including the definitive Surgeon General’s Report about the dangers of second-hand smoke.

Dr. Carmona has published extensively and received numerous awards, decorations, and local and national recognitions for his achievements. A strong supporter of community service, he has served on community and public and private national boards and provided leadership to many diverse organizations.

In 2006, Dr. Carmona successfully completed the statutory four-year term of the U.S. Surgeon General and was named to the position of vice chairman for Canyon Ranch, a leader in the health and wellness field for over 35 years. He also serves as chief executive officer of the company’s Health division and oversees health strategy and policy for all Canyon Ranch businesses. He is president of the nonprofit Canyon Ranch Institute and the first Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Bob Casey United States Senator for Pennsylvania

Bob Casey believes that public service is a privilege and companies doing business in Iran’s oil and natural gas sector. that he was elected to fight for Pennsylvania priorities and Senator Casey also cosponsored the Iran Refined Petroleum Pennsylvania values. He is working to foster financial security Sanctions Act to strengthen the President’s ability to impose for American families, improve the lives of our children, sanctions on companies that help Iran import or develop increase opportunities for the middle class and protect our refined petroleum. Both measures are now law. national security interests. Senator Casey has been a strong advocate for SNAP and other nutritional programs that help Pennsylvania families As a member of the Finance Committee, Senator Casey while driving consumer spending and economic growth. has made it his top priority to create Pennsylvania jobs and As Chair of the HELP subcommittee on Employment grow the U.S. economy. Senator Casey has introduced and Workplace Safety, he has fought to increase the legislation to make it easier for small businesses to plan for minimum wage, correct pay inequities and increase worker capital investments that are vital to job creation and voted to protections. He is a leader in the fight to improve health provide billions for tax cuts to encourage businesses to hire and safety for coal miners to prevent black lung and making workers. He has continuously fought against unfair trade sure that coal miners with black lung receive the help they policies that put American manufacturing at a disadvantage. are owed. He has pushed for the U.S. government to take stronger action against in response to the undervaluing of its Senator Casey has fought to increase investment in currency and other policies that result in American job loss. infrastructure and address Pennsylvania’s failing bridges. His He also voted for legislation to eliminate tax incentives legislation to improve Pennsylvania’s locks and dams, which corporations receive to send U.S. jobs overseas. are critical to commerce and job creation, was signed into law earlier this year. Senator Casey is a nationally recognized advocate for children. He introduced landmark legislation to increase In eight years as Pennsylvania Auditor General and two access to early childhood education. His legislation years as State Treasurer, Bob Casey compiled a record that reauthorizing the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical focused on making government more accountable and Education (CHGME) program was passed into law this responsive to the needs of Pennsylvanians. He has been year and continues to train thousands of pediatricians and a fiscal watchdog who made nursing homes safer, child pediatric subspecialists to care for kids. Senator Casey is care more affordable and government more accountable. fighting to protect the Children’s Health Insurance Program He led the fight to reform Megan’s Law to better protect which provides health care coverage to more than 14 million Pennsylvania children and communities. American children. Senator Casey has been recognized with numerous awards for his work benefiting children Casey serves on five Senate committees: Finance; Health, including the Champion for Children Award from First Focus, Education, Labor and Pensions; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Children’s Champion Award from the Children’s Hospital of Forestry; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Joint Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley Association for the Economic Committee. Education of Young Children (DVAEYC) Champion for Young Children Award. Born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Bob Casey graduated from The College of the Holy Cross in 1982 and Senator Casey is a member of the National Security Working spent the following year teaching fifth grade and coaching Group and former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations eighth grade basketball in inner city Philadelphia for the Subcommittee overseeing the Middle East. He is a leader in Jesuit Volunteer Corps. He received his law degree from promoting nuclear security and combating the threat posed Catholic University in 1988 and entered the practice of law by terrorists obtaining nuclear material. He was one of the in Scranton. first to call for more decisive action in to protect U.S. national security at home and stability across the Middle Casey and his wife, Terese, were married in 1985 and live in East. Scranton. They have four daughters: Elyse, Caroline, Julia and Marena. Casey is the eldest son of the late Senator Casey has worked to protect our troops in Robert P. Casey and his wife, Ellen. Throughout his public Afghanistan by increasing international pressure to stop the career, Bob Casey has been guided by the legacy of his flow of ammonium nitrate, a prime component in IEDs that father, and the principle that: “All public service is a trust, have killed or wounded thousands of troops and civilians. given in faith and accepted in honor.”

To increase pressure on Iran, Senator Casey introduced the bipartisan Iran Sanctions Enabling Act, which would authorize the divestment of public pension money from Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc Acting Administrator, Deputy Administrator for Innovation & Quality, Centers for & Medicaid Services

Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, is the CMS Acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality. As the CMS Acting Administrator, Dr. Conway is responsible for overseeing the programs that serve the over 140 million Americans that access health care services through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. He and the CMS team focus on health system transformation by improving quality, affordability, access to care, and health outcomes.

Dr. Conway is also Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at CMS. The CMS Innovation Center is responsible for testing numerous new payment and service delivery models across the nation that reward quality and value. Models include accountable care organizations, bundled payments, primary care medical homes, state innovation models, and many more. These models involve millions of people and hundreds of thousands of providers across the nation. Successful models can be scaled nationally. The CMS Innovation Center budget is $10 billion over 10 years.

In 2014, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine Institute of Medicine (IOM) recognizing individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. He is a practicing pediatric hospitalist and was selected as a Master of Hospital Medicine from the Society of Hospital Medicine. He has received the President’s Distinguished Senior Executive Rank and HHS Secretary’s Distinguished Service awards. These are the President’s and Secretary’s highest distinction for executive excellence. He is a former White House Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, and leader of quality improvement, research, and clinical operations at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He completed pediatrics residency at Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Hospital Boston, graduated with High Honors from Baylor College of Medicine, and graduated summa cum laude from A&M University.

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, MP Secretary of State for Health, United Kingdom

Jeremy Hunt has been a Conservative Member of Parliament for South West Surrey since May 2005. He was re-elected in 2015 with an increased majority.

In September 2012 Jeremy was appointed as Secretary of State for Health. Prior to this he served as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport in May 2010 during which time he oversaw a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in the summer of 2012. He had shadowed this brief in opposition since July 2007.

Born on 1 November 1966, Mr. Hunt studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University. He lives in Godalming and London with his wife Lucia and their three young children.

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Tamra E. Minnier, RN, MSN, FACHE Chief Quality Officer, UPMC; Executive Director, Beckwith Institute

Tami Minnier is the Chief Quality Officer for UPMC, an integrated delivery and financing system in Pittsburgh, PA. Quality, Safety and the Patient Experience is driven by the Wolff Center at UPMC. She is the Executive Director for the Beckwith Institute, a $15 million dollar foundation supporting innovation in care delivery and shared decision making.

Ms. Minnier has a passion for clinical care improvement. She has her BSN and MSN from University of Pittsburgh; she is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Ms. Minnier has studied the Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing. She is a graduate of the Advanced Training Program at Intermountain Health Care and has been on faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She is the Vice-Chair of the Board of Joint Commission International/ Joint Commission Resources. She also serves as a board member of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. A nationally known speaker, Ms. Minnier has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, , The Journal of Nursing Administration, Modern Health Care, Healthcare Leaders, Reflections by Sigma Theta Tau, and many other journals. She has been noted by Becker’s as one of the 50 top experts leading the field of patient safety and top 130 women health system leaders to know in the USA in 2015. However, her proudest accomplishment is her son, Seth.

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Didier Pittet, MD, MS, CBE Professor of Medicine, Control Programme & World Health Organization (WHO); Hospital Epidemiologist, Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety; Director, University of Hospitals & Faculty of Medicine

Didier Pittet, MD, MS, is Professor of Medicine, the Hospital Epidemiologist & Director of the Infection Control Programme and World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, . He holds Honorary Professorships at Imperial College London, UK, Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Health Science, and the First Medical School of the Fu, Shanghai, China. Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, Ireland. Professor Pittet is Lead Adviser of the WHO “Clean Care is Safe Care” & the African Partnerships for Patient Safety programmes, Patient Safety, WHO Headquarter. Professor Pittet is the recipient of several national and international honours including a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) awarded by Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II for services to the prevention of healthcare-associated infection in the UK (2007), the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Lectureship for his contribution to infection control and healthcare epidemiology (2008), the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases’ Award for Excellence (2009) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM/ICAAC 2016). The book “Clean Hands Save Lives” by the French writer Thierry Crouzet (2014), published in 17 languages, and the movie “Clean Hands” (2016), describe Didier Pittet medical odyssey to promote patient safety worldwide.

Professor Pittet is co-author of more than 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 50 textbook chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and editorial consultant for the Lancet. The experience of his team in engaging nations and healthcare settings worldwide in a universal commitment to patient safety is unique.

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Frans van Houten CEO & Chairman, Royal Philips

Frans van Houten is CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee and the Board of Management of Royal Philips, a position he has held since April 2011.

He first joined the company in 1986 and has held multiple senior global leadership positions across the company on three continents, including co-CEO of the Consumer Electronics division. From 2004 to 2009 he led the successful Philips -off NXP Semiconductors. Between 2009 and 2010 he ran his own consultancy and was senior advisor to the board of Dutch financial services business ING Group to separate ING’s banking and insurance operations.

Frans is passionate about business transformation and performance management and is a long-time champion of the company’s strategic approach to innovating sustainably. Frans’ ethos is rooted in a lean entrepreneurial approach. He leads the company in its goal to make the world healthier and more sustainable and to deliver on the company’s stated goal of improving three billion lives per year by 2025.

Under his leadership, Philips’ global Accelerate! program was launched in 2011, designed to drive entrepreneurship and operational excellence and raise the level of competitiveness across all areas of the company. It remains the engine of the company’s results improvements today.

Frans’ team has led the company into the next decisive phase of its transformation: the portfolio adjustment of Royal Philips into a focused health technology company. This was effectuated through the sale of Consumer Electronics activities in 2012 and the more recent IPO of Philips Lighting on the Amsterdam Euronext stock exchange in May 2016. The move establishes Royal Philips at the heart of a EUR 140+ billion market opportunity in health technology and Philips Lighting at the center of the EUR 65+ billion market opportunity in lighting solutions.

Frans is also recognized for strengthening Philips activities in health technology through the acquisition of US image-guided therapy leader, Volcano, and the fostering of emerging businesses such as Digital Pathology and Health informatics.

He holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Management from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and is a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists.

Married with four children, Frans enjoys sailing, skiing, running and art. He lives near Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare United States Senator for Rhode Island

Sheldon Whitehouse has made reforming our broken health care system a hallmark of his career. During his time as Rhode Island’s Attorney General, he founded the Rhode Island Quality Institute, a collaborative effort between health care providers, insurers, and government that has pioneered efforts to expand the use of electronic medical records and improve the quality of care delivered across the state.

In the Senate, as a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), he has established himself as a leader on health care delivery system reform and health information technology (HIT), working to secure new investments in HIT through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He has held hearings in the Special Committee on Aging on improving care for patients with advanced illnesses. To combat the national opioid , Whitehouse authored the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, a bipartisan law that gives states resources to prevent drug abuse, treat addiction, reduce overdose deaths, and support those in recovery. He helped to pass the , which expanded access to health insurance for people across the country, while also making important changes to the ways we deliver and pay for care that will lead to lower costs and better health outcomes. To build on the progress made by the Affordable Care Act, Whitehouse introduced legislation to add a public option to the health insurance exchanges, which would guarantee consumers access to high-quality, low-cost plans.

A graduate of and the University of Virginia School of Law, Whitehouse served as U.S. Attorney and Attorney General of Rhode Island before being elected to the Senate in 2006. In addition to HELP and Aging, he is a member of the Budget Committee; the Environment and Public Works Committee; and the Judiciary Committee.

He and his wife Sandra, a marine biologist and environmental advocate, live in Newport. They have two children.

For the latest updates on Senator Whitehouse’s work, follow @SenWhitehouse on Twitter and visit facebook.com/SenatorWhitehouse.

Foundation for Ethics, FOUNDER: Innovation & Competition in Healthcare Thomas Zeltner, MD Former Secretary of Health for Switzerland; Special Envoy of the Director General, World Health Organization (WHO)

Thomas Zeltner, a doctor, lawyer, and for 19 years the Secretary of Health of Switzerland and Director-General of the Swiss National Health Authority, has a long history as an innovative and progressive leader in public health. Currently he is chairman of the KPT insurance company, repeatedly ranked as the most innovative health insurance plan in Switzerland. He is also a member of the board of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. Since 1992, he has been Professor of Public Health at the University of Berne and is a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health (Boston). He chairs the Board of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Thomas Zeltner regularly advises the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Unit of the World Health Organization (WHO). He also served recently WHO as Special Envoy (2012-14). In this capacity he advised the Director General of WHO Margaret Chan in critical areas of the ongoing reform of this UN agency. Thomas Zeltner is born in Bern (Switzerland). He graduated with a MD and a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Bern. He is a 2010 Fellow of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative and Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) of the University of Neuchatel.

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