10th Annual World Cancer Series Europe 2024 | Economist Impact events | 29 September 2024 | Brussels Marriott Hotel Grand Place, Rue Auguste Orts, Grand Place 3-7, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

The two-day summit featured over 90 speakers and welcomed an audience representing policymakers, healthcare providers, industry leaders, academics, patient groups and investors.

2023 Past Speakers

Stella Kyriakides
Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, European Commission

Arūnas Dulkys
Minister of Health, Lithuania

Andrei Baciu
President, National Health Insurance House of Romania

Mina Gaga
Former Alternate Minister, Ministry of Health, Greece

Kateřina Konečná
Member, European Parliament

Sara Cerdas
Member, European Parliament

Tomislav Sokol
Member, European Parliament

Antoni Comin i Oliveres
Member, European Parliament

Tuula Helander
Director of the Biotechnology and Medicines Unit, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland

Cally Palmer
National Cancer Director, NHS England, and Chief Executive, The Royal Marsden Hospital

Walter Ricciardi
Chair of the EU Cancer Mission and Former President, Italian National Institute of Health

Thierry Breton
Director-General, French National Cancer Institute

Antonella Cardone
Chief Executive, Cancer Patients Europe

Denis Lacombe
Chief Executive, The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)

Thierry Philip
Chairman Executive Board, Institut Curie

Eric Deutsch
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus

Ramon Kemp
Vice-President and Head Oncology Early Development, GSK

Hugh Laverty
Executive Director ad interim, Innovative Health Initiative (IHI)

Wendy Yared
Director, Association of European Cancer Leagues

Marko Korenjak
President, European Liver Patients' Association

Tomislav Kamenski
Haematology Market Access Lead, Janssen Europe Middle-East and Africa

Ulrika Årehed Kågström
Secretary-General, Cancerfonden (Swedish Cancer Society) and Board Member, UICC

Claudia Dollins
Vice-President, Precision Medicines, Global Regulatory Affairs, GSK

Ricky Sharma
Head of Clinical Affairs, Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company

Fatima Cardoso
President, Advanced Breast Cancer Global Alliance

Matti Aapro
President, All.Can International and Board Member, UICC

Agata Jakoncic
Managing Director, MSD Greece, Cyprus & Malta

Anna Kirby
President, European Society of Radiotherapy & Oncology

Vittorio A. Guardamagna
Director of Palliative Care and Pain Therapy, European Institute of Oncology (IEO)

Rajan Jethwa
Chief Executive, Ellipses

Anja Schiel
Lead Methodologist in Regulatory and Pharmacoeconomic Statistics, Norwegian Medicines Agency

David Baldwin
Consultant Respiratory Physician and Honorary Professor of Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals and the University of Nottingham

Raphaël Ortiz
Chief Executive, Telix Pharmaceuticals EMEA

Marius Geanta
President and Co-founder, Centre for Innovation in Medicine, Romania

Jayne Spink
Translational Research Director, Prostate Cancer Research

Erik Briers
Vice-Chair, European Prostate Cancer Coalition (Europa Uomo)

Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau
Global Head of Drug Development and Chief Medical Officer, Ellipses

Emilie Bugeat-Toussaint
General Manager France and Benelux, Kyowa Kirin International

Prabhat Jha
Professor and Chair, Global Health and Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Michelle Leech
Professor Radiation Therapy, Trinity College Dublin

Jurgi Camblong
Chief Executive and Co-founder, SOPHiA GENETICS

Mark Lawler
Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor of Digital Health, and Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics, Queen's University Belfast

Suzanne Wait
Managing Director, The Health Policy Partnership

Mary Gospodarowicz
Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, and Board Member, UICC

Harry de Koning
Deputy Head and Professor of Public Health and Screening Evaluation, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam

Stefania Boccia
Full Professor, Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) and Deputy Scientific Director, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli (FPG) IRCCS

Goran Marosevic
Medical Director, Medical Centre Medikol

Jelle Wesseling
Team Lead, PRECISION Cancer Grand Challenges and Group Leader, The Netherlands Cancer Institute

Stephen Rowley
Member of the Patient Advisory Committee, Digestive Cancers Europe

Katie Rizvi
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Youth Cancer Europe

Stacey Minton
Senior Vice-President Corporate Affairs, Kyowa Kirin International

Chris Curtis
Chief Executive, The Swallows Head & Neck Cancer Charity

Jakob Dupont
Executive Partner, Sofinnova Investments

Timothy Hanna
Clinician Scientist, Queen’s University Cancer Research Institute

Sarah Quinlan
Charity Director, Radiotherapy UK

Matias Olsen
Public Affairs and Policy Manager, European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE)

Carina Schneider
Managing Director, Childhood Cancer International, Europe (CCI Europe)

Thanos Kosmidis
Chief Executive, CareAcross

Malvika Vyas
Strategic Advisor to the Board, European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) and Founder, Global Cancer Strategies

Mark Lythgoe
Academic Clinical Fellow Medical Oncology and Pharmacist, Imperial College London