Egon Jonsson is Executive Director and CEO of the Institute of Health Economics in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Adj Professor of Health Economics at the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.He was trained at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, (PhD) and as a research associate at Harvard School of Public Health, US.Egon Jonsson is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine. Until recently he was Co Editor, with Prof Stanley Reiser, UofW, of the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Cambridge University Press.For 16 years he was Executive Director and CEO of the Swedish Agency on Health Technology Assessment (SBU), and professor of Health Economics at the Department of Medicine, the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. He later worked for WHO, as a leader in establishing The Health Evidence Network (HEN), which is a service for the health Ministries of WHO/Euro member states on evidence in the field of health. Following this position he was a Health Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Health in Hanoi, Vietnam. In 2005 he moved to Canada to take on the position he still holds at the IHE, in Edmonton, Alberta. His main field of research and policy development is in health technology assessment including economic, social, ethical and legal implications of both new and established medicines, devices, procedures, and programs. Egon Jonsson, Ph.D., Adj. ProfessorUniversity of Alberta, and University of CalgaryDepartment of Medicine and Department of Community Health SciencesExecutive Director & CEO, Institute of Health Economics#1200, 10405 Jasper AvenueEdmonton, Alberta T5J 3N4CanadaTel: 780-448-4881, Fax: 780-448-0018Mobile 780 909 4721E-mail: ejonsson@ihe.ca