Bárbara Vallespín Peré

Bárbara Vallespín Peré

Barcelona (Spain)
Mobile World Capital
Program Director, Digital Transformation

Bárbara Vallespín holds a Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) (Barcelona, 2002) and MBA from Esade Business School (2007).
She has extensive knowledge in the health care and ICT sectors, with special focus on hospital, academic and R+D environments.
She worked for eight years in the Clinic Hospital in Barcelona, one of the leading institutions on translational biomedicine related research in Spain, and with a long tradition collaborating in health innovation programs.
Ms. Vallespín was involved in the management of a long list of national and international initiatives focused on the telemedicine area and management of chronic patients through the implementation of technological platforms.
She then became Business Development Officer at the Center of “Computational Imaging and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine” (CISTIB) at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She was responsible for capturing public and private funding for the Center and establish strategic alliances with the key stakeholders in the bioengineering sector.
In September 2012, she started working at IESE Business School as project director of several international projects related to the areas of integrated care, social determinants for health and health technology assessment.
In 2013, she began working in the Mobile World Capital Foundation within the Mobile Health program as mHealth manager. Ms. Vallespín developed the strategic and operational plan for the mHealth Competence Center, she coordinated several initiatives around the deployment of the mHealth Plan in Catalonia as well as international projects around the areas of digital identity, standards and interoperability in mHealth.
Since May 2016, she continues working at Mobile World Capital as d-LAB program director under the Digital Transformation area. D-LAB is focused on launching large societal challenges that can be answered through innovative digital technologies.