Joan Cornet Prat

Technical Engineer, and Graduate in Psychology. After working for some years as a Clinical Psychologist in a General Hospital, he was elected Mayor of Manresa in 1979. In 1988 he began to work as a high-level civil servant in the European Commission in Brussels, where among other projects, he lead EURES employment services and Director for Governmental Cooperation with North Africa and Middle East Countries. For five years he worked as a Director in the European Parliament.
In June of 2004, he was named General Secretary of the Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia. In September 2005, the Government entrusted him to start up the “BIOCAT” (Biotechnology) and from January 2007 to May 2013 has been CEO of TicSalut Foundation (ICT Health), since then and until April 2017 Director of “mHealth” at Mobile World Capital Barcelona.
He is currently Director of the European Connected Health Alliance. Barcelona Hub, also Director of Digital Health Transformation in AIS/KHIRUS. Hospital Clínico de Barcelona, and collaborator to the European Institute of Technology-Health (Munich).