Dr. Michal Stanak is general manager of the Beneluxa Inititive and researcher at Masaryk University, Czechia. Michal has 10+ years of experience in HTA. He has lead decision support projects for Slovak, Austrian, and German decision-makers (as well as EUnetHTA). He is founding director of the Slovak national HTA body, NIHO, and expert in health policy and applied ethics. He studied in England and Austria