Speakers 2022
Find a comprehensive list in the online program
Olaf Scholz
Federal ChancellorGermany
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
François Braun
Minister of Solidarity and HealthFrance
Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero
Minister of HealthUganda
Akinwumi Adesina
President, African Development BankIvory Coast
Helia Águeda Molina Milman
Former Minister of Public HealthChile
Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari
Minister of Public HealthQatar
Ahmed Al-Mandhari
Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO)
Ayoade Alakija
Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator), World Health Organization (WHO)
Inger Ashing
CEO, Save the Children InternationalUnited Kingdom
Ricardo Baptista Leite
Founder and President, UNITEUnited States of America
Silvia Bender
State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)Germany
Christoph Benn
President, Transform HealthSwitzerland
Seth Berkley
CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine AllianceSwitzerland
Mukul Bhola
CEO, The Defeat-NCD PartnershipSwitzerland
Gordon Brown
Ambassador for Global Health Financing, World Health Organization (WHO)
Christos Christou
International President, Doctors Without BordersSwitzerland
Christian Otu Onyebuchi Chukwu
Former Minister of HealthNigeria
Helen Clark
Chair of the Board, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), Switzerland & Former Prime Minister, New Zealand
Ronald Mourad Cohen
Chairman, The Portland Trust and Bridges VenturesUnited Kingdom
Awa Marie Coll-Seck
Minister of State to the President of the Republic of SenegalSenegal
Francesca Colombo
Head of Health Division, Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD)France
Gabriela Cuevas Barrón
Co-Chair of the Steering Committee, UHC2030Switzerland
Alan Dangour
Director of Climate and Health, Wellcome TrustUnited Kingdom
Austin Demby
Minister of Health and SanitationSierra Leone
Roopa Dhatt
Executive Director and Co-Founder, Women in Global Health (WGH)United States of America
Lucica Ditiu
Executive Director, Stop TB PartnershipSwitzerland
Didier Drogba
Former Soccer Player, Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health, World Health Organization (WHO)Côte d’Ivoire
Christopher Elias
President, Global Development, Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationUnited States of America
Maria Endang Sumiwi
Director General of Public Health at the Ministry of HealthIndonesia
María Fernanda Espinosa
Former President, United Nations General Assembly
Jeremy Farrar
Director, Wellcome TrustUnited Kingdom
Jochen Flasbarth
State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)Germany
Niesha Foster
Vice President, Product Access, Global Health & Social Impact, Pfizer Inc.United States of America
Sandra Gallina
Director-General, Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Bill Gates
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationUSA
Monica Geingos
First LadyNamibia
Hossein Ghanaati
Chancellor, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS)Iran
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Former PresidentCroatia
Garth Graham
Director and Global Head, Healthcare and Public Health, YouTubeUnited States of America
Teresa Graham
Head of Global Product Strategy, Roche PharmaceuticalsSwitzerland
António Guterres
Secretary-General, United Nations
Sue Henshall
CEO, City Cancer Challenge FoundationSwitzerland
Eckart von Hirschhausen
Physician, Science Journalist and Founder, Healthy Planet - Healthy People FoundationGermany
Chikwe Ihekweazu
Assistant Director General of Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems, World Health Organization (WHO)
Mladen Ivanić
Former PresidentBosnia and Herzegovina
Jayasree K. Iyer
CEO, Access to Medicine FoundationNetherlands
Zsuzsanna Jakab
Deputy Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
Wilhemina S. Jallah
Minister of HealthLiberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Former President, Liberia & Co-Chair, Advisory Board of ‘Our Common Agenda’, United Nations
Kersti Kaljulaid
Former PresidentEstonia
Shobana Kamineni
Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise LimitedIndia
Natalia Kanem
Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Katsunobu Katō
Minister of Health, Labour and WelfareJapan
Poonam Khetrapal Singh
Regional Director for South-East Asia, World Health Organization (WHO)
Ilona Kickbusch
Founding Director, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies | University of GenevaSwitzerland
Bärbel Kofler
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)Germany
Marion Koopmans
Head, Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MCNetherlands
Heyo Kroemer
CEO, Charité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany
Kaylyn Kyle
Former Soccer PlayerCanada
Stella Kyriakides
Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Zlatko Lagumdzija
Former Prime MinisterBosnia and Herzegovina
Marco Lambertini
Director General, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) InternationalSwitzerland
Karl Lauterbach
Federal Minister of Health, Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)Germany
Steffi Lemke
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV)Germany
Anne Lévy
Director, Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH)Switzerland
Tobias Lindner
Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office (AA), GermanyGermany
Tzipi Livni
Former Vice Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign AffairsIsrael
Stephen Lucas
Deputy Minister of HealthCanada
Mansukh Mandaviya
Minister of Health and Family Welfare & Minister of Chemicals and FertilizersIndia
Wanda Markotter
Director, Centre for Viral Zoonoses, University of PretoriaSouth Africa
Bernd Montag
CEO, Siemens Healthineers AGGermany
Ali Mrabet
Minister of HealthTunisia
Helga Mutasingwa
Medical Doctor & Youth Representative, Global Youth MobilizationTanzania
Sunita Narain
Director-General, Centre for Science and EnvironmentIndia
John Nkengasong
U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health DiplomacyUnited States of America
Ole Petter Ottersen
President, Karolinska InstitutetSweden
Ahmed Ogwell Ouma
Acting Director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)Ethiopia
Loyce Pace
Assistant Secretary for Global Public Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)United States of America
George Papandreou
Former Prime MinisterGreece
Luis Pizarro
Incoming Executive Director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi)Switzerland
Axel Radlach Pries
World Health Summit PresidentGermany
Amy Purdy
3x Paralympic Medalist; Co-Founder of Adaptive Action Sports
Abdul Qadir Patel
Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and CoordinationPakistan
Bill Rodriguez
CEO, FINDSwitzerland
Catherine Russell
Executive Director, UNICEF
Michael Ryan
Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO)
Macky Sall
President, Senegal & Chairperson, African Union
Nanjira Sambuli
President and Co-Chair, Transform HealthSwitzerland
Peter Sands
Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and MalariaSwitzerland
Svenja Schulze
Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)Germany
Stéphanie Seydoux
Ambassador for Global Health, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE)France
Tobias Silberzahn
Lead, McKinsey's Global HealthTech NetworkUnited States of America
Dennis J. Snower
Founder and President, Global Solutions Initiative FoundationGermany
Mel Spigelman
President and CEO, TB AllianceUnited States of America
Bettina Stark-Watzinger
Federal Minister of Education and Research, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)Germany
Thomas Steffen
State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)Germany
Mark Suzman
CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationUnited States of America
Soumya Swaminathan
Chief Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)
Boris Tadić
Former PresidentSerbia
Ma Thida
Human Rights Activist, Surgeon, WriterMyanmar
Manvi Tiwari
Mental Health Activist and Country Executive of India, Global Mental Health Peer Network (GMHPN)India
Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili
Former Deputy Prime Minister & Former Minister of Foreign AffairsGeorgia
Icó Tóth
President, Mallow Flower FoundationHungary
Juan Pablo Uribe
Global Director for Health, Nutrition & Population and the Global Financing Facility, The World BankUnited States of America
Carla Vizzotti
Minister of HealthArgentina
Rochelle P. Walensky
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)United States of America
Ifereimi Waqainabete
Minister for Health and Medical ServicesFiji
Ong Ye Kung
Minister for HealthSingapore
Kateryna Yushchenko
Former First LadyUkraine
Valdis Zatlers
Former PresidentLatvia