Bogi Eliasen

Bogi Eliasen is an award-winning futurist and Keynote Speaker, the Executive Director of the Movement Health Foundation and a Fellow at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.

As Executive Director of Movement Health co-creates and brings scalable health solutions especially in areas left behind today, in a forward looking private-public-civil society collaboration.

Bogi was initiator of the first population genome project FarGen to sequence in the Faroe Islands. As Director of Health at CIFS, Bogi did set 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.

His next big focus is facilitating the shift and building bridges between the fields of personal and public health. He calls himself a knowledge broker whose expertise lies in combining various fields of knowledge.

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 a consultant over the last 20 years for politicians, the public sector and private companies.