Bogi Eliasen

Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS)

Bogi Eliasen is Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS). He was born in the Faroe Islands and is educated in Political Science and International Law from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He was previously employed by the Faroe Business Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked as an advisor over the last 25 years for politicians, the public sector and private companies in addition to build and steer initiatives as FarGen, Nordic Health 2030 and Movement Health 2030

Bogi was initiator of the first population genome project FarGen of the Faroe Islands. As Director of Health at CIFS, Bogi sets the stage diving into topics such as the future of genomics, data, digital functions, and their integration with health. This is based on a holistic vision of shaping the future personalized health paradigm as a part of ambitious projects and networks around the world. He received the HIMSS Future 50 global award for his work in 2019. He initiated the Nordic Health 2030 process and has a key role in both the global Future Proofing Health Index and Movement Health 2030 that aspires to improve health by applying the new health paradigm. He is a co-chair Sciana Health Leader Network.

In Movement Health 2030, Bogi has the responsibility for the necessary systemic shifts needed to apply and harvest the opportunities of data and digital functions. The work is partly based on the Nordic Health 2030 approach for a new data model and a new social contract with data as a core component. A new social contract for health is also the theme for his work in the Sciana Network of Health Leaders, where data governance is a key focus. This is also his focus in his Fellowship at the Robert Bosch Foundation.

His next big focus is facilitating the shift and building bridges between the fields of personal and public health in order to work much more preventive, e.g. by reducing the avoidable disease burden with secondary prevention and building the data structures for that. Building fair models is at the heart of his work and Bogi is Danish chair of the World Chairs of Bioethics.

He calls himself a knowledge broker whose expertise lies in combining various fields of knowledge. He is also a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy.