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EurAfrican 2024

Hans Martens

President for the European Association for Value Based Health Care, Belgium

Hans Martens was born in Denmark, and he studied Political Science at Aarhus University, specialising in EU affairs and in public administration, and went on to become Associate Professor in international political and economic relations. He joined the European Policy Centre, a leading Brussels think tank, as Chief Executive in 2002, and retired from that post in September 2013. He is now Senior Advisor to EPC and to the consultancy Incisive Health. He chaired CHES (Coalition for Health, Ethics and Society), the health policy programme of the EPC, until 2023 and is now president of the European Association for Value Based Health Care. Besides he works as an independent consultant on a number of projects relating to health and energy policies at European level, including on the wider economics of health and care, outcomes measurements, health systems comparisons and evaluation, and public and private health care. This work has lead to more than 15 years of experience in the area of public health, including at EU level, with a specific focus on health systems and health system reform.

Alongside his business career, Hans Martens has been visiting Professor at the Universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen and he is a regular lecturer at Business Schools and Universities in Europe and in the USA, including VCU – Virginia Commonwealth University. He has extensive experience of curriculum design and planning and lectures regularly on the international circuit. He speaks five languages: Danish, English, French, German and Spanish.

He is the author of a number of books and articles on Public Administration, European integration, monetary affairs, energy and climate policies and the demographic developments in Europe.

Hans Martens is married to Tove Martens, and he lives in Spain, Belgium and Denmark.