Iñaki Gutierrez-Ibarluzea
Iñaki Gutierrez-Ibarluzea has a degree in Fundamental Biology and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of the Basque Country. He is University Specialist in Clinical Epidemiology from the Andalusian School of Public Health and the University of Granada and Master in Bioethics from the Ramon Llul University and the Borja Institute of Bioethics and a Master on Health Innovation Management from the University of Nebrija (Madrid) and Idival.
He is currently the Director of Health Research, Innovation and Evaluation at the Ministry for Health of the Basque Government since September 2024. He was previously the Head of Knowledge Management and Evaluation of BIOEF, the Basque Foundation for Healthcare Innovation and Research, past-President of the international society HTAi (2019-2021). He is also the President of EuroScan/iHTS, the international network for the identification and early assessment of technologies in their life cycle since 2020. He is advisor of WHO for medical devices and Horizon Scanning and expert reviewer of EU funded projects since 2005.