{"id":45583,"date":"2024-02-10T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T01:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/?post_type=all_speakers&#038;p=45583"},"modified":"2025-05-19T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:14:01","slug":"chris-hardesty","status":"publish","type":"all_speakers","link":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/speakers\/chris-hardesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hardesty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris Hardesty is a Partner at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purelandgroup.co\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.purelandgroup.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pureland Venture<\/a>, looking after early-stage biomedical sciences investments and value creation in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.\u00a0 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>His background is in health system financing, particularly public-private partnerships to bring safe, effective, economically-viable medical innovations to those populations in need.\u00a0 Beyond investments, Chris also serves on policy councils for topics such as reimbursement (including for digital health), healthy ageing, academic R&amp;D (including start-up advisory), and teaching in clinician-led innovation programs.\u00a0 Having worked in more than 50 countries, he follows the manta of \u201csomething to teach, something to learn\u201d about health and social system design.\u00a0 Chris is himself a healthy ageing enthusiast, recently returning from a state of ill-health and as an active father of two daughters.\u00a0 Further details about Chris\u2019 background can be found at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chardesty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chardesty\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris is also a speaker at our <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/world\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/world\/\">Beyond Activ World<\/a> in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hardesty is a Partner at Pureland Venture, looking after early-stage biomedical sciences investments and value creation in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.\u00a0 His background is in health system financing, particularly public-private partnerships to bring safe, effective, economically-viable medical innovations to those populations in need.\u00a0 Beyond investments, Chris also serves on policy councils for topics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45584,"template":"","speakers-type":[60],"class_list":["post-45583","all_speakers","type-all_speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speakers-type-world-speakers"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/all_speakers\/45583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/all_speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/all_speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speakers-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers-type?post=45583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}