Speakers - World Health Summit

Palitha Abeykoon

Board Member, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB)

Amani Abou-Zeid

Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union

Muna Abu Sin

Ambassador on Antimicrobial Resistance, Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)

Germany

Cary Adams

CEO, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

Switzerland

Pascale Allotey

Director, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research SRH, World Health Organization (WHO)

Carlos Alvarado Quesada

Commissioner, Climate Overshoot Commission and Former President of Costa Rica

Anne-Claire Amprou

Ambassador for Global Health, French Ministry for European and Foreign Affairs

France

David Atchoarena

Executive Director, WHO Academy

Joëlle Barral

Senior Director of Research & Engineering, Google DeepMind

France

José Manuel Barroso

Chair of the Board, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Switzerland

Hellen Anurika Beyioku-Alase

Executive Director, Deaf Women Aloud Initiative

Nigeria

Catharina Boehme

Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Governance, World Health Organization (WHO)

Thomas Breuer

Chief Global Health Officer, GSK

United Kingdom

Meeyoung Cha

Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Germany

Gloria Charles

Youth Activist and Innovator

Tanzania

Ru-fong Joanne Cheng

Director, Women’s Health Innovations, Gates Foundation

United States of America

Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda

Minister of Health

Malawi

Shirmai Chung

Member of the Youth Engagement Group, Climate Overshoot Commission

Helen Clark

Chair of the Board, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)

Switzerland

Mandy Cohen

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

United States of America

Awa Marie Coll-Seck

President, Forum Galien Africa

Senegal

Patrick Cramer

President, Max-Planck-Society

Germany

Alan Dangour

Director of Climate and Health, Wellcome Trust

United Kingdom

Geneviève Darrieussecq

Minister of Health

France

Dame Sally Davies

UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

United Kingdom

Karen DeSalvo

Chief Health Officer, Google

United States of America

Christian Drosten

Director, Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Germany

Victor J. Dzau

President, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

United States of America

Christopher Elias

Member, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB); President, Global Development, Gates Foundation

United States of America

Obiageli Ezekwesili

CEO, Human Capital Africa

Nigeria

Jeremy Farrar

Chief Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)

Atul Gawande

Assistant Administrator, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

United States of America

Spyridon-Adonis Georgiadis

Minister of Health

Greece

Haben Girma

Disability Rights Advocate & First Deafblind Graduate of Harvard Law School

Githinji Gitahi

Global CEO, Amref Health Africa

Kenya

Marelize Gorgens

Lead for Digital Health, The World Bank

United States of America

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Co-Chair, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB); Former President of Croatia

Garth Graham

Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health, YouTube/Google

United States of America

Jane Halton

Chair of the Board, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)

Norway

Ahmad Helmi

Human Rights Advocate & Co-Founder, Ta’afi Initiative

Syria

Zeinab Hijazi

Global Mental Health Lead, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Richard Horton

Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet

United Kingdom

Chikwe Ihekweazu

Assistant Director-General for the Division of Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems in the Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO)

Rowland Illing

Chief Medical Officer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Jayasree K. Iyer

CEO, Access to Medicine Foundation

The Netherlands

Dean Jamison

Co-Chair, Lancet Commission on Investing in Health; Professor Emeritus, Global Health, University of Washington

United States of America

Beate Kampmann

Director, Charité Center for Global Health (CCGH)

Germany

Natalia Kanem

Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Jean Kaseya

Director-General, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)

Ethiopia

Afshan Khan

Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations & Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition Movement

Rajat Khosla

Executive Director, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)

Switzerland

Ilona Kickbusch

Founding Director, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Switzerland

Hans Kluge

Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO)

Heyo Kroemer

CEO, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Germany

Thelma Krug

Former Vice-Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Brazil

Hatice Küçük Beton

Executive Director, The G20 & G7 Health and Development Partnership

United Kingdom

Alain Labrique

Director, Department of Digital Health and Innovation, Science Division, World Health Organization (WHO)

Heidi J. Larson

The Vaccine Confidence Project and Chair, The Global Listening Project

United Kingdom

Vanina Laurent-Ledru

Director General, Sanofi Foundation

France

Karl Lauterbach

Federal Minister of Health, Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)

Germany

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Founder and President, One Health Trust

United States of America

Gabriel Leung

Executive Director, Hong Kong Jockey Club

Sir Mark Lowcock

Board Member, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB)

Shingai Machingaidze

Co-Chair, International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat (IPPS)

Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel

Secretary of Health Surveillance and Environment, Ministry of Health

Brazil

Wahid Majrooh

Founder and Executive Director, Afghanistan Center for Health and Peace Studies (ACHPS); Former Minister of Public Health, Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Michael Makanga

Executive Director, Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking

Belgium

Susana Malcorra

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs & Worship of Argentina & President, GWL Voices

Spain

Sunao Manabe

Executive Chairperson and CEO, Daiichi Sankyo

Japan

Jeni Miller

Executive Director, The Global Climate and Health Alliance

United States of America

Matshidiso Moeti

Regional Director for Africa, World Health Organization (WHO)

Bernd Montag

CEO, Siemens Healthineers AG

Germany

Suerie Moon

Co-Director, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Switzerland

Tjedu Moyo

Youth Representative to the Global Financing Facility Investors Group, Lunia Centre for Youths

Zimbabwe

Heizal Nagginda

Founder, Climate Operation

Uganda

María Neira

Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization (WHO)

Kee Yuan Ngiam

Group Chief Technology Officer, National University Health System (NUHS)

Singapore

Olivia Ngou

Executive Director, Impact Santé Afrique

Cameroon

Sania Nishtar

CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Switzerland

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

President and Chief Executive Officer, The ONE Campaign

United States of America

Thomas Östros

Vice-President, European Investment Bank (EIB)

Luxembourg

Deepali Patel

Director of International Policy, AMR Action Fund

Priti Patnaik

Founding Editor, Geneva Health Files

Switzerland

Joy Phumaphi

Co-Chair, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB); Former Minister of Health of Botswana

Peter Piot

Handa Professor of Global Health, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

United Kingdom

John Quinn

Chief Information Officer, National Health Service (NHS) England

United Kingdom

Naveen Rao

Senior Vice President, Health Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation

United States of America

David Reddy

Director-General, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)

Switzerland

Pamela Rendi-Wagner

Director, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

Magda Robalo

Co-Chair, UHC2030 Steering Committee

Switzerland

Mike Ryan

Deputy Director General, WHO and Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme

John-Arne Røttingen

CEO, Wellcome Trust

United Kingdom

Antoine Saint-Denis

Director for European and International Affairs in Social Ministries, Ministry of Health and Solidarity

France

Jérôme Salomon

Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage, Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization (WHO)

Peter Sands

Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Switzerland

Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao

Chief Resource Mobilisation & Growth Officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Switzerland

Svenja Schulze

Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Germany

Rhonda Sealey-Thomas

Assistant Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Michael Sen

CEO, Fresenius

Germany

Olive Shisana

Special Advisor on Social Policy to the President

South Africa

Liam Smeeth

Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

United Kingdom

Christine Stegling

Deputy Executive Director, Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge Branch, UNAIDS

Elhadj As Sy

Chair, Kofi Annan Foundation

Switzerland

Lia Tadesse

Former Minister of Health of Ethiopia & Executive Director, Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program

United States of America

Andrew Ullmann

Member of Parliament; Chair, Subcommittee on Global Health

Germany

Justin Vaïsse

Founder and Director-General, Paris Peace Forum

France

Maria Van Kerkhove

Director, Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, World Health Organization (WHO)

Jan Christian Vestre

Minister of Health

Norway

Monique Wasunna

Africa Ambassador, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)

Kenya

Saima Wazed

Regional Director for South-East Asia, World Health Organization (WHO)

Lothar H. Wieler

Chair, Digital Global Public Health, Hasso Plattner Institute

Germany

Durhane Wong-Rieger

President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Organization for Rare Disorder (CORD)

Canada

Gavin Yamey

Director & Hymowitz Professor of Global Health, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke University

United States of America

Jennifer Young

Vice President, Global Policy & Public Affairs – Specialty Care, Pfizer

United States of America

Marzia Zambon

Executive Director, Europa Donna

Italy