CEO
SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital St. Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain

Manel del Castillo Rey is since 2003 Chief Executive Officer of SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital. He is part of the Governing Board of the General Directorate of Provincial Curia of the Hospital Order of Saint John of God, since 2014. He is also member of the Children’s Hospital’s International Executive Forum since 2010. He is an expert in management of healthcare institutions and specialist in family and community medicine. Manel holds a Master's degree in public utility management from the ESADE. He embarked on his career in healthcare as Primary Care Manager in Mallorca (1988-1993), and then as Provincial director of the Balearic Health Service (1993-1996), Managing director of the Hospital Manacor Foundation (1996-1998), Manager of the Municipal Hospital of Badalona (1998-2003), Deputy director-general of the Catalan Hospital Consortium - Consultancy and Management (2001-2003), and he occupied the post of General Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the CAPSS Social and Medical Care Employer's Association (from 2007 to 2016). He has received the following prizes: Arthur Andersen Diario Médico 2001, Bearing Point 2003, Profesor Barea 2008 (6th edition) and the Factor Humà Mercè Sala 2012 (4th edition) from the Factor Humà Foundation.