Giovanni Tafuri is the Senior Scientific Officer of the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) at the EUnetHTA Secretariat in the Netherlands. Prior to his appointment, he worked at both the HTA and the regulatory department of the Italian Medicines Agency (2006-2018) and as Seconded National Expert in Scientific Advice at EMA (2015-2017). He is a pharmacist, MSc in “International Health Care Management, Economics and Policy” (Bocconi University), PhD in “Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation” (University of Utrecht) and held research positions at different national and international institutions (World Health Organization, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Italian National Institute of Health).