Meeting of OECD Health Ministers: Who's Who

last update - 06 May 2004

Chair

• Dr. Julio Frenk, Minister of Health, Mexico

Vice-Chairs

• Mihaly Kökény, Minister of Health, Social and Family Affairs, Hungary
• Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services, United States

Ministers / Heads of Delegations

• Jane Halton, Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing, Australia 
• Maria Rauch-Kallat, Federal Minister of Health and Women, Austria 
• Régine De Clercq, Ambassador, Permanent Delegation to the OECD, Belgium
• Pierre Pettigrew, Minister of Health, Canada
• Michael VÍT, Deputy Minister of Health and Chief Public Health Officer, Czech Republic
• Kjeld Kjeldsen, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of the Interior and Health, Denmark
• Fernand Sauer, Director, SANCO/C, European Commission
• Liisa Hyssälä, Minister of Health and Social Services, Finland
• Xavier Bertrand, Secretary of State for Health Insurance, France
• Klaus Theo Schröder, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry to the Minister of Health and Social Securityof Health and Social Security, Germany
• Lycurgus L. Liaropoulos, Director, Center for Health Services Management and Evaluation, University of Athens, Greece
• Jón Halldór Kristjánsson, Minister of Health and Social Security, Iceland

• Micheál Martin, Minister for Health and Children, Ireland

• Filippo Palumbo, Director General of Health Planning, Ministry of Health, Italy

• Yoshiharu Otsuka, Vice-Minister for the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan

• Kim Hwa-Joong, Minister for Health and Welfare, Korea 
• Hubert Wurth, Ambassador, Permanent Delegation to the OECD, Luxembourg
• Johannes Franciscus (Hans) Hoogervorst, Minister for Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands
• Andreas Disen, Director General, Ministry of Health, Norway
• Annette King, Minister of Health, New Zealand
• Wiktor Maslowski, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Health, Poland
• Luís Filipe da Conceição Pereira, Minister of Health, Portugal
• Rudolf Zajac, Minister of Health, Slovak Republic
• Elena Salgado Méndez, Minister of Health and Consumers, Spain
• Ilija Batljan, Director, Ministry for Health and Social Affairs, Sweden
• Pascal Couchepin, Head, Federal Department of Home Affairs, Switzerland
• Necdet Ünüvar, Undersecretary, Ministry of Health, Turkey
• John Hutton, Minister of State for Health, United Kingdom

Observers

• Alexander Vladychenko, Director General  ad interim of Social Cohesion (DGIII), Council of Europe
• Dalmer D. Hoskins, Secretary General, ISSA
• Timothy Evans, Assistant Director-General, Evidence & Information for Policy, World Health Organization

OECD

• Donald J. Johnston - Secretary-General
• Berglind Ásgeirsdottir - Deputy Secretary-General