Peter Speyer

Peter is Head of Data & Analytics at the Novartis Foundation, accelerating the use of data and analytics towards the Foundation’s mission to improve population health and inequities. Before that, Peter co-founded Novartis AG’s transformational data42 program which enables the use of the company’s deep pre-clinical, clinical, and real world data to accelerate and improve drug R&D. Prior to his work at Novartis, Peter was Chief Data & Technology Officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle. He managed the data for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study and created IHME’s global public data catalog Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) and innovative interactive data visualizations. Peter holds an International MBA from Temple University and a Master in Business & Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).