Eric Sutherland

Senior Health Economist at the OECD and former head of Canada's pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy. His keynote presents the expert-led Madrid Action Plan for implementing AI in healthcare.

Eric Sutherland is a Senior Health Economist leading the OECD's work in Digitalisation of Health, bringing together policy guidance for digital security, integrated data, and responsible analytics including artificial intelligence. In that role, he is accountable for measuring and evolving the OECD's Recommendation on Health Data Governance (2016) and supporting policy for digitalisation of health that provides data protection (e.g. security and privacy) and timely access to quality data to optimize the use of data for information, insights, and impact among individuals, health workers, policy makers, researchers, and innovators.