Martin Curley is Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University and Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University, Ireland. Most recently Martin was Chief Information Officer and Director of Digital Transformation for Ireland’s National Health Service (HSE) and was founder of the National Digital Academy and is co-Director of a National MSc in Digital Health Transformation in Ireland. Immediately prior to this Martin was Senior Vice President at Mastercard and head of Global Digital Practice. Martin is chair of the UNGA Digital Health Symposium and has previously been Vice President, Senior Principal Engineer and Director of Intel Labs Europe as well as Global Director of IT Innovation at Intel Corporation.

As chair of the European Commission OISPG he led the development of the new Open Innovation 2.0 paradigm and he is the co-founder of the Innovation Value Institute in Maynooth University where he led the development of the IT Capability Maturity Framework used by over eight hundred organizations globally to improve the value created from their IT/Digital capability. He has also held engineering management positions at Philips and General Electronic. Martin has been identified as a top 10 global influential, inspiring and impactful health leader/educator by several international publications and was awarded European Chief Technology Officer of the year in 2015. He is the author of eight books on Innovation, Digital and Entrepreneurship and has keynoted and led executive education across the world from Boston to Beijing and Sydney to Sao Paolo. He was awarded Irish National Digital Leader of the Year award in 2024 and the world Public Sector Innovation award with HSE in 2020. He has two forthcoming books on Digital Innovation and Driving Digital Health Transformation.