Chris has had the good fortune in his career of working across more than 50 countries and a range of disciplines to drive healthcare transformation programs. His passion lies in this sector, and he particularly enjoys serving as a collaboration agent between public and private sector so as to achieve progress toward universal coverage goals. Chris is a Partner at Pureland Venture Group, overseeing venture creation activities across a variety of medical product and service innovations. He is also a Senior Advisor to the KPMG Global Health & Life Sciences Centre of Excellence, including ongoing projects in areas such as sustainable health financing, healthy ageing, precision medicine, digital health reimbursement and digital therapeutics. In addition, Chris has appointments with key innovation bodies in Singapore, such as the National Health Innovation Centre, Biodesign, Duke-NUS, APACMed, Therapeutic Development Review, among others. Chris completed his MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and Doctorate of Public Health at UNC-Gillings. He has been based in Singapore for nearly a decade, with his partner and two daughters. Further details about Chris’ bio can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chardesty/.