Ricardo Antonio Hora Velasquez

- End-to-end responsibility for EU grant assurance, procurement, and P2P processes. - Oversight of EU and Horizon Europe cost eligibility, budgeting, audits, and financial controls. - Design and execution of procurement procedures, including EU open tenders. - Development of templates, procedures, and controls to ensure audit readiness and defensible use of public funds. - Strategic use of procurement design and evaluation criteria to manage risk, competition, and outcomes.

- Delivery of market and strategic research projects, acting as project lead or core contributor. - Support to project structuring, analysis, and advisory outputs in a consulting environment. - Design and implementation of internal process and tooling improvements to support project execution.

- Design and implementation of internal financial and grant management processes, including distributed systems for order and sub-grant management. - Financial and technical guidance on budgeting, procurement, reporting, and audits for European health innovation projects. - Training of staff and partners on EU grant management, public procurement, and financial audits.

- Design and drafting of clinical research protocols for non-interventional studies. - Methodological guidance on study design, field data capture, and analysis. - Design and implementation of case report forms and data management systems.

- Technical guidance on research methodology and ethics as member of an Institutional Review Board. - Review and assessment of ethical compliance in human-subject research protocols. - Lead reviewer for selected projects in biomedical engineering and medical technology.

- Design and delivery of innovation support programs for selected health innovation projects. - Coordination of external business consulting support and monitoring of project performance across multi-partner European consortia. - Support to project feasibility, execution, and market readiness for new health products and services.

- Research and analysis of public and proprietary data to support strategic communications planning. - Contribution to the development of the Communication Strategy and Strategic Communication Plan. - Presentation of research findings and strategic inputs to internal stakeholders and external partners.

- Leadership of biomedical informatics and research operations in a USG research environment. - Development and implementation of field data capture systems to support monitoring and evaluation of USG-funded HIV/AIDS prevention programs across multi-country military settings. - Design and execution of clinical and epidemiological research studies. - Operational and financial measures to improve efficiency and reduce administrative overhead.

- Leadership of a biomedical informatics unit within a USG research environment. - Establishment of inter-agency collaborations resulting in additional funding and expansion of the unit to department level. - Leadership of the transition of a national military disease surveillance system from proprietary to open-source technologies. - Design and execution of clinical and epidemiological research studies.

- Coordination of the nationwide implementation of the Peruvian Military Electronic Disease Surveillance System. - Design and execution of epidemiological and clinical research studies in military populations. - Technical guidance to military stakeholders on real-time electronic disease surveillance and research methodology.

Early leadership and entrepreneurial roles involving business setup, operations, and growth strategy in health-related and service sectors.

Life Science Economics and Policy

Applied Statistics for Business and Management

Field Epidemiology

Health Services Management