ABOUT THE FORUM @ ADGHW
The Forum @ ADGHW serves as the central platform of Abu Dhabi Global Health Week, bringing together global leaders to tackle critical healthcare challenges through collaboration, innovation, and strategic investment.

THE FORUM @ ADGHW
The Forum @ ADGHW is the flagship conference and cornerstone of Abu Dhabi Global Health Week, bringing global health leadership and bold innovation to the forefront.
Over three days, the world’s leading minds in healthcare will tackle the most urgent questions shaping the future of health. Through powerful keynotes, thought-provoking panels, and one-on-one conversations, the Forum fosters dialogue that drives real-world impact, from transforming care through technology to shaping policies that protect communities worldwide.
With a focus on community-driven care, prevention, and personalised well-being, it’s where transformative ideas shape a healthier, more sustainable world for all.
FORUM @ ADGHW VISIONARIES

H.E. Mansoor Al Mansoori
Member of The Abu Dhabi Executive Council
Chairman of The Department of Health in Abu Dhabi

H.E. Dr. Noura Al Ghaithi
Undersecretary
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi (DoH)

H.E. Dr. Rashed Alsuwaidi
Director General
Abu Dhabi Public Health Center (ADPHC)

H.E. Dr. Jean Kaseya
Director General
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)

Ciyong Zou
Deputy to the Director General and Managing Director; Directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Bayna Saif Al Awani
Director General of Healthcare Payers and Finance Affairs
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi (DoH)

H.E. Ibrahim Al Jallaf
Executive Director of Digital Health
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi

Dr. Asma Ibrahim Al Mannaei
Executive Director, Research and Innovation Centre
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi (DoH)

H.E. Prof. Dr. Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar
Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development and Minister of Health & Population
Arab Republic of Egypt

H.E. Anahit Avanesyan
Minister of Healthcare
Republic of Armenia

H.E. Mikhail Murashko
Minister of Health
Russian Federation

H.E. Sami Smeirat
Minister Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship
Jordan

H.E Dr. Jaleela bint AlSayed Jawad Hasan
Minister of Health
Bahrain

H.E. Adonis Georgiadis
Minister of Health
Hellenic Republic

H.E. Firas Ibrahim Al-Hawari
Minister of Health
Jordan

H.E Minister Mikheil Sarjveladze
Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Health, Labor and Social Affairs of Georgia

H.E. Dr. Thani Bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi
Minister of State for Foreign Trade and Minister in charge of Talent Attraction and Retention
Ministry of Economy, UAE

H.E. Dr. Hussain Abdul Rahman Al Rand
Assistant Undersecretary for the Public Health Sector
Ministry of Health Prevention, UAE

Leymah Gbowee
Liberian Peace and Women's Rights Activist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 2011; Founder and President, Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA), Liberia

Nerio Alessandri
Founder & CEO
Technogym

Dr. Ali Abdul Kareem Al Obaidli
Chairman
UAE National Transplant Committee

Dr. Ayman Al Hendy
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, and Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Sciences, Khalifa university, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Hubertus von Baumbach
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors and
Chief Executive Officer
Boehringer Ingelheim

Michel Demaré
Chair
AstraZeneca

Dr. Peter Kash
Co-founder, TargImmune Therapeutics and iOncologi; Chairman, Camelot BioCapital, USA

Tsitsi Masiyiwa
Executive Chair and Co-founder
Higherlife Foundation

Jim Mellon
Co-Founder, Deputy Chairman
Juvenescence

Prof. Eran Segal
Professor and Department Chair of Computational Biology, MBZUAI | Professor of Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science

Tarek Sultan
Vice Chairman
Agility

Sir Jonathan Symonds
CBE, Chair
GSK, UK

Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil
Founder and Chairman
Burjeel Holdings

Dr. Mishal Alqasimi
Chief Executive Officer
Capital Health

Prof. Raghib Ali
CEO, Chief Investigator and Chief Medical Officer
Our Future Health

Shaista Asif
Group Chief Executive Officer
PureHealth

Isabel Afonso
CEO
Arcera, UAE

Dr. Peter Attia
Physician, podcast host, and author
Early Medical

Dr. David Barzilai
Founder and CEO, Barzilai Longevity Consulting | Faculty and Trustee, Geneva College of Longevity Science
Healthspan Coaching LLC | agingdoc.com

Elena Bonfiglioli
Global Business Leader, GM Healthcare, Pharma, and Life Sciences
Microsoft

Ahmed Mohamed Al Bastaki
Advisor, General Secretary
National Supreme for Unified Procurement, UAE

Arya H. Bolurfrushan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
AppliedAI

Dr. Ola Brown
General Partner and Founder
HealthCap Africa

Madeline Bell
Chief Executive Officer
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Kevin B. Churchwell, MD
President and CEO
Boston Children’s Hospital

Dr. Thomas Clozel
Co-Founder and CEO
Owkin, USA

Dr. Mike Curtis
President and Chief Executive Officer
eGenesis

Dr. Steve Davis
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Syndicate Bio

Dr. Khalid Fakhro
Chief Research Officer
Sidra Medicine

Dr. Stefan Frings
Chief Medical Officer Pharma Development
Roche

Dr. Heitham Hassoun
Chief Executive International
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

George Pascal Haber
Chief Executive Officer
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

H.E. Dr. Farida Al Hosani
Deputy CEO
GLIDE, UAE

Dr. Kamran Khan
Founder and CEO
BlueDot, Canada

Prof. Aymeric Lim
Chief Executive Officer
National University Hospital - NUHS

Sherrie Lim
Chief Executive Officer
Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital

Dr. Richard Jenkins
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Executive Advisor, Health Industries
PwC

Dr. Michelle Longmire
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder
Medable

Kevin B. Mahoney
Chief Executive Officer
University of Pennsylvania Health System

Dr. James Mault
Chief Executive Officer
BioIntelliSense

Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic
Chief Executive Officer
Cleveland Clinic

Alisha Moopen
Managing Director, Group CEO
Aster DM Healthcare, UAE

Dr. Barry Merriman
Adjunct Professor of Synthetic Biology, J. Craig Venter Institute; Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder, Avery Bioengineering Inc. & Roswell Molecular Electronics Inc., USA

Dr. Yoshihiko Nakamura
CEO, Kinescopic Inc., Japan; Professor, MBZUAI

Mohamed Nasser
AVP General Manager
Amgen in the Middle East & Africa (MEA)

Dr. Sania Nishtar
Chief Executive Officer
GAVI

Hasan Jasem Al Nowais
Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer
M42

Julia Miao
Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Sihuan Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Tom Oxley
Chief Executive Officer
Synchron

Prithviraj Pramanik
Co-founder and CEO
AQAI, India

Dr. Matthew Shaw
Chief Executive Officer
Great Ormond Street Hospital

Dr. Nicole Sirotin
CEO
Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi, UAE

Anil Soni
Chief Executive Officer
WHO Foundation

Dr. Kari Stefansson
Founder and CEO
deCODE genetics.

Diego Santoro
General Manager and Head of the International Region
Kite, Gilead

Jacob Thaysen
Chief Executive Officer
Illumina

Prashant Tandon
Co-founder, CEO
Tata 1mg, India

Bjoern Von Siemens
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Caresyntax

Chris Wharton
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
WndrHLTH

Dr. Hon Weng Chong
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Cortical Labs

Peng Xiao
Group Chief Executive Officer
G42

Dr. Christine Yuan Huang
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Quantum Life | Technology Transfer Director, Hong Kong Quantum AI Lab (HKU,InnoHK)

Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov
Founder and CEO
Insilico Medicine, USA

Dr. Hesham A. Abdullah
Senior Vice President, Global Head Oncology, Research & Development
GSK

Mohammad Aboubakr
Regional Vice President-Middle East, Africa and Russia CIS
Abbvie, UAE

Dr. Linda Bedran
Senior Vice President & Head of Corporate Affairs, JANZ & Emerging Markets
Viatris

Ali Besri
Vice President, Emerging Markets Access and Accord Lead
Pfizer Inc

Alex Beauvais
Partner
McKinsey

Dr. Nicolas Chemali
Senior Vice President, International Value and Access
Lilly International, USA

Dr. David Katz
CEO, DietID; President, True Health Initiative

Dr. Richard L. Lieber
Chief Scientific Officer & Senior Vice President of Research
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Dr. Cecilia Radu
Vice President, General Manager
Novo Nordisk, UAE

Tala Al Ramahi
on behalf of
Mohamed bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity

Dr. Iskra Reic
Executive Vice-President, International
AstraZeneca
Emma Rawson-Te Patu
President
World Federation of Public Health Associations

Jim Swanson
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Johnson & Johnson
Laura M. Swint
Vice President, Digital Health and AI Leader, META
Eli Lilly

Dr. Pavel Volchkov
Life Science Research Center MIPT, Russia

Tony Terzis
Associate Vice President, Medical Affairs, META
Eli Lilly

Irina Zaporozhets
President and General Manager (META)
Eli Lilly

Dr. Nir Barzilai
Director of institute of Aging Research
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Olfat Berro
Area Head Middle East
Roche Pharmaceuticals

Alessandro Borgogna
Chief Cluster Economic Development
Abu Dhabi Investment Office

Prof. Quek Swee Chye
Executive Director
NUHS Institute of Clinical Quality, National University Health System

Dr. Toby Cosgrove
Executive Advisor, Cleveland Clinic, Former CEO and President, USA

George Demetri, MD
Senior Vice President - Experimental Therapeutics
Dana-Farber

Dr. Jicui Dong
Head of the Local Production and Assistance Unit
WHO

Dr. Bettina Ernst
Vice President
Swiss Biotech Association (SBA)

Prof. Habiba Al Safar
Dean of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences
Khalifa University

Dr. Steve Horvath, PhD
Principal Investigator
Altos Labs, USA

H.E. Dr. Amin Hussain Al Amiri
Assistant Undersecretary for the Health Regulation Sector
Ministry of Health and Prevention – UAE (MoHAP)

Hady A. Khoury
Chief Development Officer
Medable

Dr. James Kirkland
Director of the Center for Advanced Gerotherapeutics & Professor of Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Prof. Andrea Maier
Oon Chiew Seng Professor in Medicine, National University of Singapore; Co-Founder, NUS Academy for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
United Nations

Dr. Makoto Nakanishi
Professor, The institute of Medical Science
The University of Tokyo

Dr. Miguel Angelo L. Nicolelis
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Duke University

Prof. Gregory A. Petsko
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Eddie Reilly
Global Head, Regulatory Affairs
Sanofi

Elodie Robin-Guillerm
Head of Global Clusters
Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO)

Dr. Samir Said
Healthcare Informatics Leader, Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, Russia and Central Asia
Philips

Dr. Christian Sina
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Institute of Nutritional Medicine
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany

Dr. Jennifer Stone
Co-Chair Indiana Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health
Indiana University School of Medicine, USA

Dr. Diana Torgersen
Head of Innovation Ecosystem Integration
Organon

AlDhabi AlMheiri
Entrepreneur, Publisher, Founder
Rainbow Chimney, UAE

Becky Anderson
Host, CNN Connect, Managing Editor
CNN Abu Dhabi

Hamish Clark
Health Industries Partner and Chief Wellness Officer
PwC Middle East

Elsy Dumit
Principal
Roland Berger

Farah Fakhouri
Founder of Wave Health Consultancy
UAE

Hadley Gamble
International Correspondent and TV News Anchor; Host, the Hadley Gamble Show

Dr. Panco Georgiev
Senior Partner
Mckinsey

Ali Hashemi
Co-Founder and CEO
meta[bolic]

Dr. Stephen R. Grobmyer
Chair of the Cancer Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi-Fatima bint Mubarak Center

Dr. Shahrukh Hashmi
Director of Research
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi

Dr. Lars Hartenstein
Co-Founder
McKinsey Health Institute (MHI)

Dr. Mira Mousa
Assistant Professor, Public Health and Epidemiology
Khalifa University

Prof. Elias Mossialos
Cheng Yu Tung Chair in Global Health
The London School of Economics and Political Science

Shannon Marc Neilsen
Director Longevity
PureHealth

Lara Setrakian
International Journalist; President of the Applied Policy Research Institute (APRI)
Applied Policy Research Institute

Minni Sarkka-Hietala
Partner, Social and Healthcare Sector Leader
Deloitte

Lina Shadid
Partner and Health Industry Lead
PwC

Anna Stewart
International Correspondent, UK
CNN

Sumit Sharma
Partner and IMEA Head, Health & Life Sciences
Oliver Wyman

Kelsey Warner
Gulf Reporter
Semafor

Dr. Maria Gomez
Director, National Regulatory Center for Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues, UAE
Ministry of Health and Prevention, UAE

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The Forum @ ADGHW will once again bring together the world’s leading minds in healthcare. Over three days, 300 visionary speakers will deliver powerful keynotes and thought-provoking panels, tackling the most urgent challenges shaping the future of health.
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