Ludmilla Schlageter

Ludmilla “Ludi” Schlageter is a senior global health leader with experience across institutional, NGO, corporate, and academic sectors. She serves as Head of the Berlin Office and Head of Advocacy at Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW), driving engagement with parliamentarians, governments, and international partners to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality, and global health financing. Her most recent corporate leadership post was as Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, EMEA, at Siemens Healthineers, where she spent more than a decade shaping health technology policy — focusing, among other priorities, on Africa and women’s health. She built strategic partnerships with governments and multilateral organizations to expand access to diagnostics, strengthen health systems, and foster equitable innovation. Previously, she was Deputy Head of the European Patent Office in Brussels, worked in the Federal Foreign Office during Germany’s 2007 EU Presidency, and led the Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign, later serving as an MSF Board Member. She has also taught political science and public health at Sciences Po Paris, TU Berlin, and the University of Bonn. Ludi is a member of Women in Global Health and other networks advancing women, global health, and development cooperation.