Jaanus Pikani, MD has been practicing surgeon in head and neck oncology, hospital manager of the National Cancer Centre and Tartu University Hospitals, secretary general of the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia and the chief of staff of the Office of the President of Estonia. He has been an initiator and architect of the Estonian Genome Project, a leading population-based health and genome databank of 220,000 participants (ca 20% of entire Estonian population) as of today and a founder and board member of Tartu Biotechnology Park, an innovation support entity for technology innovation intensive business development. Since 2016, Jaanus has served as the chairman of Baltic Sea Region life and biotechnology meta-cluster ScanBalt, which has been actively supporting EHDS process under several EU Presidencies.