Ricardo Baptista Leite is CEO of ‘HealthAI – Global Agency for Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence in Healthcare’, a non-profit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland.
He took up his post in May 2023 following an international recruitment process.
Founder and President of the ‘UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health’, a worldwide network of current and former
of current and former legislators from parliaments, congresses and senates, present in more than 105 countries, in partnership with
more than 105 countries, in partnership with the World Health Organization.
Chair of the ‘Harvard-Charité Global Health Policy Lab’, an academic center based in
Berlin that is the result of collaboration between Harvard University (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Health Systems Performance Lab
of Public Health, Health Systems Performance Lab) and the Charité University of Berlin
(University Medicine Berlin, Center for Global Health). Former member of the Portuguese Parliament
Republic (4 terms, 2011-2023) and former vice-chairman of the Board of the Parliamentary Group of the
Social Democratic Party (PSD). He was the PSD candidate for the Lisbon constituency in the 2021 legislative elections.
Lisbon constituency in the 2021 legislative elections.

A doctor trained in infectious diseases, with almost a decade of clinical practice.
He returned to clinical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic as a volunteer doctor at the
Cascais Hospital between 2020-2021. As part of a humanitarian mission, he provided medical support
medical support as a volunteer at the Lviv Regional Hospital in Ukraine in the summer of 2022 after the
invasion by the Russian Federation. Postgraduate studies completed at various
academic institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Kennedy School
of Government and Harvard Medical School.