Ilona KICKBUSCH

Professor Kickbusch is a leading global health expert. She has contributed to many innovations, policies and educational initiatives during her distinguished career. 

Presently she is the Director of the Digital Transformations for Health LAB at the University of Geneva and co-chair of the Council of the World Health Summit. 

She continues to advise the WHO and is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. 

She served as a member of the path-breaking WHO Council on the Economic of Health for All. 

She is the founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute Geneva and was the director of the Global Health Division at Yale University School of Public Health. 

She was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz) and the WHO Medal for to global health. 

She is a political scientist with a PhD degree from the University of Konstanz.