BOGI ELIASEN

Bogi Eliasen serves as the Executive Director of the Movement Health Foundation, where his visionary leadership focuses on scaling transformative initiatives in NCD’s with focus on cancer and cardio-metabolic diseases, leveraging advanced data and digital solutions—particularly in middle-income countries. Born in the Faroe Islands, Bogi’s academic journey in Political Science and International Law at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, complemented by Executive Education from Harvard Kennedy School, laid the foundation for his multifaceted career.

A pioneer in global health innovation, Bogi initiated the FarGen project—the first global population genome project based in the Faroe Islands—and launched the Nordic Health Movement 2030, which is dedicated to driving fundamental change in preventive health. His commitment to digital transformation in health and care earned him the HIMSS Future50 International Achievement Award in 2019.

Bogi’s influence extends across a broad spectrum of health and digital arenas. He is a co-founder and former board member of the Movement Health Foundation, a dedicated member of the global Bioethics Network, and serves as vice-chair of the HIMSS network in the Nordic countries. His contributions include participation on the Steering Committee for Phase V of decentralized and digital clinical trials, as well as ambassadorial work with the Sciana Health Leader Network in Europe.

Further demonstrating his international impact, Bogi is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, where he focuses on enhancing healthcare systems in Germany, Europe, and Latin America. He also co-chairs WHO’s Strategic Partners’ Initiative for Data and Digital Health and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Advisory Group on Digital Healthcare Transformation.

From 2014 to 2025, Bogi was Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies. There, he merged futures methodologies with pioneering health strategies—most notably his recent work on Chronic Respiratory Disease and the pioneering COPD index.

With a holistic perspective on the future of personalized and preventative health, Bogi specializes in integrating data, digital capabilities, and genomics into innovative health solutions. He envisions the future of health as a seamless bridge between personal and public domains, with digital innovation as the key catalyst in secondary prevention. Self-described as a knowledge broker, his expertise lies in merging diverse fields of knowledge to create unified, impactful health transformations.