Gabriela Prada

Dr. Gabriela Prada is a physician with more than 20 years of experience in policy analysis and management consulting in health care. She is a global expert on value-based health systems and value-based medical technology acquisitions, and has led the dialogue on these issues with public managers and health care providers in Canada, Europe, Latin America and Australia. She was appointed by the Ontario government to an expert panel that provided recommendations on how to improve the medical technology supply chain in Canada's largest province.

Senior Director, Health Systems Policy, Global Government Affairs, Medtronic

Claudia Brabata

Claudia Brabata is the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for Medtronic Latin America, and has a career spanning more than 25 years in the health industry, performing various roles in reimbursement, market access, government policy, advocacy, marketing, business development and finance with local, regional and global responsibilities.

She is the current president of the “AdvaMed – Latin America Access Working Group” and former president of the “Latin America – Industry Committee at the International Society of Pharmaco-Economics and Outcomes Research – ISPOR”.

Director of Policy and Government Affairs, Medtronic Latin America

Diego Guarin

Dr. Diego Guarin has contributed to the development of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research in Latin America serving as chair of two ISPOR Latin American Consortium Committees (2010-12/2014-16) and being appointed as the first representative of Latin America at the ISPOR Health Science Policy Council (2017-2019). He is also member of HTAi interest group on Developing Countries since 2009.

Regional Market Access Lead for Latin America, Merck

Ramiro Guerrero Carvajal

PhD in economics with experience in research, consultancy, policy making, health, education, journalism. Has been vice minister of Social Protection in Colombia, researcher at Harvard and at Fedesarrollo, editor of business and economics at Semana magazine and founding director of PROESA (think tank in health economics and policy). Has served as board member of organizations in the financial, social and technology sectors, and Dean of the School of Economics and Finance at Universidad Icesi in Colombia.

Principal Specialist, Social Protection and Health Division, IADB

Ramon Maspons

MSc in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Executive Master in Public Administration. He holds a Diploma of Advances Studies in innovation and research management. Ramon has more than ten years of experience in hospital and medical innovation and more than twenty years of experience in internationally funded research projects, mainly EU projects.

Chief Health Innovation Strategist, Ministry of Health, Government of Catalonia

César Landa Arroyo

César Landa Arroyo has been Peru's foreign minister since February 1, 2022. He was a senior professor of constitutional law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. He has been a national and international constitutional consultant and arbitrator for public and private institutions. He is the former president and magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Peru (2004–2010), ad-hoc judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2003–2014) and vice minister of state in the Office of Justice (2004).

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru

Santiago Rojas Arroyo

Santiago Rojas Arroyo is the north regional manager of the CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and the institution's representative in Peru. He held different positions such as minister of commerce, industry and tourism of Colombia; president of the Foreign Trade Bank – BANCOLDEX; general director of taxes and customs; adviser to the Colombian Mission to the WTO; director of the Colombian Institute of Foreign Trade; CAN legal consultant, among others.

North Regional Manager and Peru Representative, CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean

Vickram Bharrat

Mr. Vickram Bharrat was born in Berbice, Region 6 and attended the New Amsterdam Multilateral Secondary School. His academic achievement includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Guyana and is qualified in the area of Public Management with a wealth of experience in governance and managerial competencies.

Minister of Natural Resources, Republic of Guyana

Cornelius Fleischhaker

Cornelius Fleischhaker is a senior economist with the World Bank, covering macroeconomics and public finance in Angola and Sao Tome and Principe. In this role he leads budget support operations in both countries as well as analytical work on government expenditures, debt sustainability and other macroeconomic and public finance issues.

Senior Country Economist, The World Bank