MARIA LAIRES

Chair, CEO (Owner), EHTO - European Health Telematics Observatory

As Chairman and CEO, I am in charge of keeping a permanent strategic vision for running the "EHTO - European Healh Telematics Observatory" that by covering informations and news worldwide "www.ehto.org" I am Portuguese born, but I had an wide international education, since I was a child. Later on, when being a professional person, I worked and travelled abroad (Canada, Africa, China, Macau, Mexico, Philipnes, Cuba, and of course Europe) My first contact with Europe was in 1950, travelling by car with my paerents, every year, 1full month. That was a fundamental "education" to me because I found Europe (also Spain) completely devastated by the Second War,and my profound interest in understanding all that "reconstructive" people (different of my own people) which had also different types of cultures between all them. I've learnt from those lessons, for the rest of my life. Today's, those key "fundaments and roots" give me a particular vision about the current "world multiple crisis", also on lessons deserving to be carried on, to contribute in the a future for a better economic and societal Global World.