Ricardo Baptista Leite

Member of the transitional High-Level Council

Ricardo Baptista Leite, MD is a Medical Doctor trained in Infectious Diseases. He has also been a Member of the National Parliament of Portugal for the Social Democratic Party (PSD) since 2011, having recently been appointed as CEO (as of May 2023) of the International Digital Health and AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR), a Geneva-based organization striving to enable and improve access to inclusive, impactful and responsible research in the areas of Digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with focus on healthcare. Ricardo is Founder and President of ‘UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health’, a global platform of current and former members of parliaments, congresses and senates, present in more than 95 countries and an official partner of the World Health Organization. He is Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Network on the World BANK/IMF and Global Ambassador of the G20 Health & Development Partnership. He has recently been appointed as Member of the Council of the World Health Summit.

Regarding his academic affiliations, Ricardo is Chair of the ‘Centre for Global Health’ at the NOVA Information Management and Data Science School - NOVA IMS -, and Guest Lecturer at Nova Medical School, both at NOVA University.

For many years, Ricardo has been an advocate, public speaker and author on several matters of health policy, public and global health, global and local governance and digital transformation.