Andrea RAPPAGLIOSI

Andrea is currently Senior Vice-President Public Affairs EMEA, Canada and LATAM at Edwards Lifesciences and member of the regional Executive Leadership Team. He is leading the Government Affairs, Market Access, Communication and Patients Advocacy engagement for the company.

Born in Rome, Andrea received a law degree from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. Andrea began his professional career in the Italian Senate. Recently he worked in the Sanofi group as VP Public Affairs Europe and at SPMSD Joint Venture where he was member of its Executive Committee from 2012 to 2016. Before, he worked at Baxter Healthcare, Serono International and GSK in different European and International positions in the public affairs and market access policy area.

Andrea is the Chair of the HTA Committee of MedTech Europe - the European trade association for the medical technology industry including diagnostics, medical devices and digital health.

Recently, he has been appointed member of the Board of the European Patient Safety Foundation (EUPSF).

In the last ten years, Andrea represented the healthcare Industry in several European EU Commission and Member States initiatives such as the HTANetwork, EUnetHTA Joint-Action 3, and the EU Active & Healthy Aging Innovation Partnership and the EU Joint Action on Vaccination. He was President of EuropaBio the European Association of the biotech Industry (2009-2011), and of Vaccines Europe, the European Vaccines manufacturers association (2013-2017). Andrea is a founding member of the Global Policy Forum at HTAi – the scientific and professional society for all those who produce or use health technology assessment (HTA) and he is currently chairing the MedTech Europe HTA Committee.