TOMASZ HILDT - BIOGRAPHY, 250 WORDS

Tomasz Hildt has spent his career in two worlds that rarely meet.

For twenty years he worked at the top of global marketing and communications.
He was chief executive of one of Leo Burnett's agencies, part of Publicis
Groupe, and a regional director for Procter & Gamble covering Central and
Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, following earlier roles at JWT and
McCann Erickson on brands including Heineken, Johnson & Johnson, HSBC and
Citigroup. It was a career built on understanding why people decide what they
decide, as opposed to the reasons they give.

He then crossed into medical innovation. As chief executive of the Galien
Foundation's Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe operations, and of Prix
Galien Middle East, he sits on the juries that decide what counts as a
breakthrough, and in the rooms where those breakthroughs are financed and
turned into national strategy. Founded in France in 1970, the Prix Galien is
often called the Nobel Prize of biomedical research.

He is the author of The Health Order: How Medicine Became Geopolitics, which
argues that the questions treated as technical - who manufactures a medicine,
who holds a population's genomic data, who sets the regulatory standard - are
decisions about sovereignty, and that most countries are making them without
noticing. The book opens with the 2020 paracetamol export restrictions and
contrasts a Europe that debates resilience in committee rooms with parts of the
Gulf building sovereign capability from nothing.

He divides his time between the Gulf and Europe.