Rui Santos Ivo,

is currently President of INFARMED – National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, I.P. (since july 2019), and Guest Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon in the area of Medicines Regulation (since 2009).
At European level, he is the Vice-President of the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) (since October 2024), Vice-Chair of the Valletta Standing Technical Committee/Valletta Declaration (since July 2017) and also Chair of the Heads of Health Technology Assessment Agencies Group (HAG) (since September 2021).

Rui Santos Ivo graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Lisbon in 1987. Specialist in Hospital Pharmacy by the Ministry of Health (1992) and the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society (2006) and in Regulatory Affairs, honorary by the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society (1997). With postgraduate training in Health Law (Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon and National School of Public Health, 1997), Pharmaceutical Medicine (University of Basel, 1999), Regulation (London School of Economics and Political Science, 1999), Management of Health Units (Portuguese Catholic University, 2000 and AESE Business School, 2015).