Hans Peter Jung is an entrepreneurial GP who has negotiated a different payment system with interesting results (20% less hospital admissions). He studied Medicine with a minor in Environmental Science at Radboud University Nijmegen (1982–1989). After earning his doctorate in 1987, he worked as a paramedic in ’s Hertogenbosch and later as a senior medical resident in Nicaragua, researching healthcare for the poor and supporting UN environmental programs. He lectured in health education and worked as a physician-assistant in psychiatry before completing general practice training at Radboud University Nijmegen. From 1995 to 1999, he worked at the Scientific Institute for Quality in Health Care and earned a Ph.D. for his research on patients’ perspectives in general practice. He has published more than 30 scientific papers on healthcare and quality of care. Since 1997, he has been a general practitioner in Afferden, Limburg. He has been a leading advocate of Positive Health in the Northern Meuse Valley, co-authoring the best-selling Handbook of Positive Health in General Practice.

Ricarda Milstein is a Health Policy Analyst at the OECD and works on healthy ageing and long-term care including strategies to promote healthy ageing and preparing health systems for an ageing population, and improving quality of long-term care. In addition, she has a strong interest in how to improve quality and efficiency of hospital systems. Prior to joining the OECD, she worked as a research associate at the Hamburg Center for Health Economics, focusing on hospital payment systems and quality of hospital care. She holds a PhD in Health Economics.

In 2024, he completed habilitation in the field of Neurology at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. Since 2015, he has held the position of Head of the Neurology Department at České Budějovice Hospital and is also the Head of the Center for Highly Specialized Cerebrovascular Care and the Regional Spasticity Center. He serves as the Scientific Secretary of the Committee of the Czech Society for Clinical Neurophysiology. His main areas of interest include intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring and cerebrovascular diseases. He is the author or co-author of 44 publications in journals with impact factor, with 261 citations (excluding self-citations) and an H-index of 9. He is the principal co-author of the monograph “Intraoperative Stimulation Monitoring in Neurosurgery,” which received the Czech Society for Clinical Neurophysiology JEP Award in 2006.

Henrieta Tulejová is a partner and internal trainer at the Advance Healthcare Management Institute. She holds a Master's in Health Policy and Management from Brandeis University in Boston and a degree in financial management from the Faculty of Management at Comenius University in Bratislava. At Advance, Henrieta focuses on health insurance, establishing sustainable healthcare financing, and analyzing the effectiveness of care delivery in hospitals. She has worked on several projects related to managed care, disease management programs, and innovative contracts between health insurance companies and healthcare providers, such as bundled contracts and P4P (Pay-for-Performance). She worked for over 5 years as the manager of the strategic planning department at the health insurance company Dôvera. Prior to that, she was a member of the reform teams of Tomáš Julínek and Rudolf Zajac, where she focused on the reform of health insurance companies and public health insurance.