Canada's health care system is often looked at - in contrast to the US' - with admiring eyes in Europe.

Valentin Petkantchin of L'institut économique Molinari (IEM) is an expert on Canadian health care. Now living in France, he will examine the strengths and weaknesses, and recent developments.

A transcript of this event is now available here in PDF format (200K).

Valentin Petkantchin holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Economic analysis of institutions) and a Master's Degree in Media communication and economics training from the University of Aix-Marseille III (France). Between 1996 and 2003 he was a fellow researcher at the Center of Economic Analysis and a lecturer in economics at the Applied Economics Faculty and at the Law Faculty in that same university.

Petkantchin also wrote weekly columns between 1999 and 2002 for Libres.org, an electronic newspaper offering an economic perspective on public policy and current affairs in France. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and research working papers on various subjects and has worked for several years with the Institute for Humane Studies-Europe and the Institute for Economic Studies-France.