Confirmed speakers for the 2005 World Health Care Congress - Europe included:

BERGLIND ÁSGEIRSDÓTTIR Deputy Secretary-General, OECD FRANCE

PER BÅTELSON President and CEO, Capio AB SWEDEN

GORDON BEATTIE Head of Procurement, NHS Greater Glasgow SCOTLAND

ELISABETH BEAU CEO, Mission d’Expertise et d’Audit Hospitalier (MEAH) FRANCE

DR. RAFAEL BENGOA Director, Health System Policies and Operations, World Health Organization SWITZERLAND

PHILIP C. BERMAN Director, The European Health Management Association - EHMA IRELAND

JOHAN BEUN Ambassador, NICTIZ THE NETHERLANDS

DR. ROBERT H. BIDER CEO, Hirslanden SWITZERLAND

DR. GEERT H. BLIJHAM Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the Board, University Medical Center Utrecht THE NETHERLANDS

STEVE BOLZE President, GE Healthcare International FRANCE

LAURENT BORELLA Director of the Healthcare, Innovations and Evaluation Department, National Institute of Cancer FRANCE

DR. EAMONN BUTLER Director, The Adam Smith Institute UNITED KINGDOM

DR. GERARD COMYN Acting Director, Directorate H, Head of Unit, ICT for Health, The European Commission BELGIUM

SIR NIGEL CRISP Chief Executive, Department of Health and National Health Service, England UNITED KINGDOM

PHILIPPE CUNEO Directeur Adjoint, DREES FRANCE

TONY DAGNONE President and CEO, The London Health Sciences Centre, CANADA

PATRICE DEGOULET CIO, Pompidou University Hospital - Director, Research Laboratory in Medical Informatics, Broussais Faculty of Medicine in Paris FRANCE

MANUEL DELGADO Hospital Miguel Bombarda, Portugal, President of EAHM PORTUGAL

PASCAL DETEMMERMAN Vice President, EMEA Public Sector Marketing, Health and Education Customer Solutions Group Hewlett-Packard Company SWITZERLAND

SIR LIAM DONALDSON UK Government's Chief Medical Adviser, Chief Medical Officer for England and Chairman of WHO World Alliance on Patient Safety UNITED KINGDOM

HERVE DUCHESNE DE LAMOTTE Chief Financial Officer, IDM FRANCE

PAUL ECKBO Chairman and CEO, Preferred Global Health NORWAY

MILADA EMMEROVÁ Minister of Health CZECH REPUBLIC

ROBERT G. EVANS Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia CANADA

JOSEP FIGUERAS Head of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, World Health Organization BELGIUM

ANSGAR GABRIELSEN Minister of Health and Care Services NORWAY

MACIEJ GAJEWSKI Director of Health Care Systems, IFPMA SWITZERLAND

DR. WOLFGANG GEROLD Head of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Economics, Wiener Krankenanstaltenverbund AUSTRIA

RANNVEIG GUNNARSDÓTTIR, M.SC. Executive Director, Icelandic Medicines Control Agency ICELAND

GEORGE C. HALVORSON Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals USA

PAUL HERMELIN CEO, Capgemini FRANCE

RUI DOS SANTOS IVO President, INFARMED - Medicines Regulatory Authority PORTUGAL

LISE KINGO Executive Vice President, Corporate Stakeholder Relations, Novo Nordisk A/S DENMARK

ARNE KVERNELAND Head of Department Health Informatics, National Board of Health DENMARK

MARKOS KYPRIANOU Commissioner, Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection, EU Commission BELGIUM

MATS LARSON President, EHTEL SWEDEN

KARL LAUTERBACH Director, Institute of Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Köln GERMANY

MIKE LEERS Chairman and CEO, CZ Group THE NETHERLANDS

DR. GABOR LINTHORST Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam Medical Center THE NETHERLANDS

ALASDAIR MACKINTOSH Vice President, Capgemini UNITED KINGDOM

SIR JONATHAN MICHAEL Chief Executive, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust UNITED KINGDOM

LOUIS OMNÈS Executive Director, University Hospitals’ Group East, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris FRANCE

ROBERT N. PARKE Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman USA

DR. JOSEP M PICAS VIDAL General Manager, ICS Barcelona SPAIN

MAUREEN CONNORS POTTER Executive Director, International Accreditation, Joint Commission International USA

MARIA RAUCH-KALLAT Federal Minister for Health and Women AUSTRIA

SIR MICHAEL RAWLINS Chairman, National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) UNITED KINGDOM

DR. ERICH R. REINHARDT President and CEO, Siemens Medical Solutions GERMANY

Dr. Marie-Hélène Rodde-Dunet Director, Improvement of Care and Access to Innovations, Institut National du Cancer, France

PAUL ROBINSON Executive Consultant, Supply Chain CAPGEMINI

DR. BRIAN ROBSON Medical Director, NHS 24 UNITED KINGDOM

Dr. Roman Schenk, Founder and CEO, Protegeia GmbH, Germany

PETER C. SMITH Professor, Centre for Health Economics, University of York UNITED KINGDOM

RICHARD SMITH CEO, Unitedhealth Europe UNITED KINGDOM

ROBERT A. STEGWEE Professor, E-Health Architectures and Standards, University of Twente THE NETHERLANDS

BO SWEDIN Director, Federation of County Councils SWEDEN

NICHOLAS TIMMINS Public Policy Editor THE FINANCIAL TIMES

ROGER VAN BOXTEL CEO, Menzis THE NETHERLANDS

ALBERT VAN DER ZEIJDEN Chair, International Alliance of Patients' Organizations THE NETHERLANDS

MARTIN VAN RIJN Director-General, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports THE NETHERLANDS

FREDERIC VAN ROEKEGHEM Directeur Général, Caisse Nationale de l’Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés – CNAMTS FRANCE

PAUL vanOSTENBERG Managing Director, International Office, Joint Commission International FRANCE

DR. VICTOR G. VILLAGRA President HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY VECTOR INC.

DEREK WANLESS Vice Chairman, Statistics Commission UNITED KINGDOM

BARRY WILSON Senior Vice President and President, International, Medtronic, Inc. SWITZERLAND

LAWRENCE WONG Director of Healthcare Finance at the Ministry of Health SINGAPORE

THOMAS ZELTNER Director of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health SWITZERLAND