Sweden has been undergoing enormous changes in its health care system, most notably in Stockholm, where a pilot program has been introduced throughout the city.

Mr Hjertqvist is one of the key figures behind the introduction of the market-based changes that are part of the pilot program.

Mr. Johan Hjertqvist is Director of the Timbro Health Unit in Stockholm, Sweden. Mr. Hjertqvist was a founding member of the Timbro Policy Group, still the most influential think tank in Sweden. From 1991 to 1994 he was a deputy mayor in his hometown of Tyresö, outside Stockholm

From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Hjertqvist worked on the ideas behind the Stockholm system, aiming at the creation of new arenas to bring private health care entrepreneurs, contractors and the government together to strengthen the impact of market pluralism.

Since 1999 he has led a four year project analysing the transformation of health care in Stockholm.

Mr Hjertqvist also acts as an adviser to the Greater Stockholm Council, specialising in market infrastructures where purchasers and providers can meet.