Airfinity is pleased to welcome Bill Emmott, the longest serving Editor of The Economist in modern times, to its advisory board as part of the company’s increased investment into serving media worldwide with health data and information.
Bill currently holds a number of leadership roles including co-Director of the Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy and Chair of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Bill Emmott says: “Airfinity has done groundbreaking work on COVID-19 and all its implications, and become an indispensable part of the global health information infrastructure; it’s possibly the most quoted health data company in the world. I welcome the opportunity to help the team expand and develop its health risk data offering. The world faces unprecedented natural challenges and can only meet these with the right data.”
Rasmus Bech Hansen, Airfinity’s founder and CEO says: “The pandemic has proven to us all that accurate data and information is critical to responding to global health threats in time and that these tools can save lives. But this area is also more challenged than ever by misinformation campaigns, increased politicization of health matters and reduced investment in health journalism.
We have seen the need for our unbiased, fact driven analytics grow enormously. I am excited to welcome someone with Bill’s enormous experience in global affairs to the company as an advisor. I look forward to working with him on strengthening our biorisk assessment capabilities and more broadly our efforts to inform the public on key global health related matters.”
View our full leadership team and advisory board here.