Ms Federica Margheri
Executive Director, European Health Management Association (EHMA), Belgium
Speakers
Plenary speakers
Ms Federica Margheri
Ms Federica Margheri is Executive Director of the European Health Management Association (EHMA), where she leads the organisation’s strategic direction and represents the voice of health management at European and international level. She engages regularly with the European Parliament, the European Commission, the World Health Organization, national authorities, industry and civil society, promoting health management as a strategic lever for resilient, sustainable and people-centred health systems.
She works at the intersection of the EHMA membership, Board of Directors and Secretariat, ensuring the effective delivery of the Association’s mission and strengthening its role as a convenor of policy dialogue, research collaboration and professional exchange across Europe. A central part of her role is building and maintaining partnerships with European institutions, international organisations and project consortia, as well as overseeing EHMA’s portfolio of EU-funded initiatives and flagship events.
Ms Margheri brings over 15 years of experience in project and financial management, communications, operations, administration and governance within European and international organisations. Prior to joining EHMA, she worked with international NGOs and held positions at the European Commission and the European Parliament. She holds a Master’s degree in Policy and Diplomacy and a Master’s degree in International Affairs and Diplomacy.
Antoni Peris-Grao, MD
Dr Antoni Peris-Grao is President of the European Health Management Association (EHMA) and Chief Executive Officer of CASAP – Consorci Castelldefels Agents de Salut, a public consortium delivering primary care services through a Primary Care Team and a Primary Care Emergency Unit. CASAP is committed to providing highly resolutive, high-quality primary care, with a strong emphasis on organisational development, service innovation and team cohesion.
Dr Peris-Grao is a medical doctor specialised in Family and Community Medicine. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Health, a qualification in Quality Management, and a degree in Primary Care Management. He is actively involved in professional and scientific networks and serves on scientific and organising committees of CAMFiC and the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC). He is also a member of BSalut, an association dedicated to research, innovation and management in health services.
Prof Jaume Ribera
Prof Jaume Ribera is Professor Emeritus in the Operations, Information and Technology Department at IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, where he has made sustained contributions to research and teaching in operations and healthcare management. He holds an MSc in Operations Research and a PhD in Mathematical Systems Theory from the University of Florida, and a doctorate in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue doctoral studies in the United States.
Prof Ribera served as Deputy Dean of Faculty at IESE Business School from 1993 to 2001. He was President of the European Operations Management Association and previously Secretary of the U.S. Operations Management Association. His research interests include operations improvement management, health systems management and project management, and he has published extensively in academic journals, casebooks and textbooks.
He has also been active in consultancy across sectors including healthcare, supply chain and project management, working with public and private organisations in Europe, Latin America and beyond. Prof Ribera has contributed to numerous health sector projects financed by the European Union and the World Bank and serves on boards of charities and public entities.
Panel and workshop speakers
Prof Americo Cicchetti
Prof Americo Cicchetti is a leading scholar and senior health policy expert with extensive experience in health economics, HTA, and healthcare organisation. He currently serves as Extraordinary Commissioner of AGENAS, the National Agency for Regional Health Services, overseeing national support for regional health systems. Prior to this, he was Director-General for Health Planning at the Italian Ministry of Health, where he led strategic initiatives on health system governance and national health planning.
He is also Full Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Management Sciences at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where he teaches healthcare management and organisational theory. Prof Cicchetti has held longstanding academic leadership roles, including Director of ALTEMS, the Graduate School of Health Economics and Management from 2012 to 2023.
His work focuses on health technology assessment, economic evaluation of healthcare programmes, health system organisation, and evidence-informed decision-making. He has published extensively in international journals and contributed to the development of HTA methodologies and networks in Italy and Europe. Prof Cicchetti has served in numerous scientific committees and institutional boards, reflecting his longstanding contribution to health services research and policy.
Marco Marchetti, MD
Marco Marchetti is a distinguished physician, health services researcher and senior expert in HTA with extensive experience in epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, research methodology, and healthcare evaluation. He currently serves as Director of the HTA Department at AGENAS, the National Agency for Regional Health Services, where he leads national efforts on harmonising HTA processes and contributes to European HTA governance. He is also Co-Chair of the Member State Coordination Group on Health Technology Assessment (HTACG) under the European Commission, supporting the implementation of EU HTA regulation and collaborative assessment activities across member states.
A graduate in Medicine and Surgery from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, Marco Marchetti specialised in Hygiene and Public Health and in Legal Medicine. His academic work spans health services organisation, quality assurance, systematic reviews, economic evaluation and budget impact assessment. Before his current role at AGENAS, he directed the National Centre for Health Technology Assessment at the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) and led the hospital-based HTA Unit at Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli. Throughout his career he has played key roles in international HTA networks and contributed to advancing methodologies for evidence-informed decision-making in healthcare.
Prof Federica Morandi
Prof Federica Morandi is Professor of Management at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Faculty of Economics, Department of Management Studies. She is Programme Chair of the Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Service Management and obtained her PhD in the Economics and Management of Healthcare Organisations at the same university.
Since 2020, she has served as Director of Academic Programmes at ALTEMS, the Graduate School of Economics and Management of Healthcare Systems, where she also coordinates the research activities of the Patient Advocacy Associations Lab and the Clinical Trial Management Lab. Her research focuses on organisational models in healthcare and the healthcare workforce.
Prof Morandi has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles and around 10 book chapters and is the author of the monograph Managerial Solutions to Hospital Challenges (Nova Science Publishers, 2016). She is co-editor of a book series on healthcare management and Associate Editor of Health Services Management Research. She has received research awards from the Academy of Management and ASSIOA and regularly presents her work at national and international conferences.