LEADERSHIP
Presidents
Eugenio GaudioInternational President 2022
Rector (until 2020)
Luciano SasoInternational President 2022
Vice-Rector for European University Networks
Axel Radlach PriesWorld Health Summit President
DeanManagement
Jörg HeldmannManaging DirectorFounding President
Detlev GantenFounding President
World Health SummitCouncil
Co-Chairs
Ilona Kickbusch
International Advisory Board Chair, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva
Elhadj As Sy
Chair of the Board, Kofi Annan Foundation
Members
Till Bärnighausen
Heidelberg University
Ingo Behnel
German Federal Ministry of Health
Christoph Benn
The Joep Lange Institute
Catherina Böhme
World Health Organization (WHO)
Thomas B. Cueni
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)
Manfred Dietel
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Roland Göhde
GHA - German Health Alliance
Andrew Haines
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Chikwe Ihekweazu
World Health Organization (WHO)
Tobias Kahler
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Stefan Kaufmann
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Axel Klaphake
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Marion Lieser
Light for the World International
Jürgen Mlynek
Falling Walls Foundation
Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti
World Health Organization (WHO)
Bernd Montag
Siemens Healthineers
Eamonn Murphy
UNAIDS
Heinz Riederer
iNG innovation. Nachhaltigkeit. Gesundheit
Caroline Schmutte
Wellcome Trust
Liam Smeeth
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Veronika von Messling
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Lothar Wieler
Robert Koch Institute
Scientific Committee
Co-Chairs
Stefan Kaufmann
Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Carlos Santos
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Coimbra Hospital and University Center
Members
Till Bärnighausen
Director, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
Elizabeth Blackburn
Nobel Prize laureate (2009) / President Emerita, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Thomas B. Cueni
Director General, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)
Christian Drosten
Director, Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Bärbel-Maria Kurth
Director, Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute
Thomas Mettenleiter
President, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Maike Sander
Director, Pediatric Diabetes Research Center, UC San Diego
Günter Stock
President, ALLEA - All European Academies
Ambassadors
Edelgard Bulmahn
Federal Minister of Education and Research (until 2005)
Manfred Dietel
Director (until 2016), Institute of Pathology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Alexander Hewer
Member of the Executive Board, Klinikum Stuttgart
Eckart von Hirschhausen
Physician, Science Journalist and Founder, Healthy Planet - Healthy People Foundation
Michael Rabbow
Senior Advisor, E&P Focus Africa Consulting
Heinz Riederer
Managing Director, iNG innovation. Nachhaltigkeit. Gesundheit
Reinhard Schäfers
German Ambassador (until 2015)
Ansgar Tietmeyer
Head of Public Affairs (until 2017), Deutsche Bank AG
Charles Yankah
Chairman, Afrika Kulturinstitut e.V.
Former International Presidents
2020 & 2021Charles Ibingira
Principal (until 2020)
2019Ali Jafarian
Chancellor (until 2017)
2018João Gabriel Silva
Rector (until 2019)
2018Fernando Regateiro
Chairman of the Board of Directors (until 2020)
2017Hélène Boisjoly
Dean (until 2020)
2016Antoine Flahault
Director
2015Shunichi Fukuhara
Dean (until 2016)
2014José Otávio Costa Auler Jr.
Dean (until 2018)
2013John Eu-Li Wong
Chief Executive
2012Michael J. Klag
Dean (until 2017)
2011Steve Wesselingh
Dean (until 2011)
2010Stephen K. Smith
Pro Rector Health (until 2011)
2009Axel Kahn
Dean (until 2011)