Board

Yannis Natsis

Board member

Yannis Natsis is the Director of the European Social Insurance Platform (ESIP), the umbrella organisation bringing together 45 national statutory social security institutions from 19 EU countries and Switzerland. ESIP is the voice of social protection and security in Europe or as Yannis puts it one of Europe’s truest treasures. He also leads the Medicine Evaluation Committee (MEDEV), a network of 25 national authorities from 23 EU Member States and Norway bringing together all the relevant institutions (national HTA agencies and social health insurers-payers) responsible for the assessment, pricing and reimbursement of medicines in Europe. Based in Brussels, Yannis brings over 12 years of experience in EU advocacy and policymaking. From 2019 to 2021, he served as a Member of the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), appointed by EU Member States. Since 2018, he has also been a Board Member of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), Europe’s leading health policy platform. Before joining ESIP in 2022, Yannis spent six years at the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), where he designed and led advocacy strategies to improve access to affordable medicines. Earlier in his career, he worked with the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) on health and pharmaceutical policy. He began his professional life in Greece as an investigative journalist, working for the acclaimed TV programme Fakeli and contributing to the daily newspaper Kathimerini. Yannis holds a Master’s degree in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent and a Bachelor’s degree in European Studies from Pantion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. A Greek national, he is fluent in Greek, English and French.