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Johan Hjertqvist
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Mr Johan Hjertqvist is the founder and president of the Health Consumer Powerhouse in Brussels/Stockholm, the European do-tank for better healthcare by consumer information and knowledge (2004).
Mr Hjertqvist has a background in health care policy and welfare entrepreneurship.
Mr Hjertqvist has a Master of Laws degree from the University of Stockholm. He was editor-in-chief of the NPT the first Swedish news agency to promote business and economy material. In the middle of the 80´s he belonged to a small group of entrepreneurs starting the first private Swedish venture capital market. He also worked as a Senior Counsellor at the Burson-Marsteller Communications Group. 1991-94 was Mr Hjertqvist deputy Mayor in his Hometown Tyresö outside Stockholm. He was also the founder and president of HELA 1994-1999 a trade association for private healthcare providers.
Mr Hjertqvist is the author of a number of books (facts as well as fiction) on politics, cookery and health and has contributed to anthologies on similar subjects. He is a frequent lecturer on health care reform worldwide.
Starting 1999 he led a four-year-project analysing the transformation of health care in the Stockholm region. The first report from this project was published in 2000 ("Sjukvårdens kulturrevolution"), followed by "Månfärd eller pyspunka" (2001) and "Slutet på början" (2002). His introduction to the Stockholm process ("The Stockholm health care revolution", 2000 and "The end of the beginning, 2003) is an internationally well-known inspiration to reform.
Mr Hjertqvist has played an active role in the transition of internal market ideas to a number of countries, UK, Norway and Canada not the least. Mr Hjertqvist has also acted as an adviser to the Greater Stockholm Council with a focus on market infrastructures where purchasers and providers can meet.