Members

Members

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Chair

H.E. Mia Amor Mottley

Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment, Minister of National Security and the Civil Service, BARBADOS

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Vice-chair

Mr Jakob Forssmed

Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health, SWEDEN

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Members

Mr Mohammed Mousa Alameeri

Assistant Undersecretary for the Food Diversity Sector, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Dr Ahmed Mohammed Obaid Al Saidi

Former Minister of Health, SULTANATE OF OMAN

Ms Beatrice Atim Odwong Anywar

Minister of State for Environment, UGANDA

Ms Anahit Avanesyan

Minister of Health, Republic of ARMENIA

Prof C.O. Onyebuchi Chukwu

Former Minister of Health, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, NIGERIA

Dr Guilherme Antônio da Costa Júnior

Federal Agricultural Auditor at the Secretariat of Trade and International Relations, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, BRAZIL

Dr Mekdes Daba

Minister of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of ETHIOPIA

Prof Dame Sally Davies

UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, UNITED KINGDOM

Dr Jamie Jonker

Science and Programme Coordination Committee Chair, International Dairy Federation, USA

Prof Dr Ernst Kuipers

Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, NETHERLANDS

Mr Fernando Lugris

Ambassador of the Oriental Republic of URUGUAY

Ms Ummy Mwalimu

Member of Parliament and former Minister of Health United Republic of TANZANIA

Ms Sunita Narain

Director-General, Centre for Science and Environment, INDIA

Dr Maria Panayiotou

Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Republic of CYPRUS

Mr Yasuhisa Shiozaki

Former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Member of the House of Representatives, JAPAN

Prof Lothar H. Wieler

Chair of the Digital Health Cluster, Hasso Plattner Institute and Prof of Digital Global Public Health, GERMANY

Ms Jennifer Zachary

Executive Vice President, General Counsel, MSD, Rahway, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Ex-Officio Members

Ms Inger Andersen

Under-Secretary-General, United Nations and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme

Biography

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

Between 2015 and 2019, Ms. Andersen was the Director-General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Ms. Andersen has more than 30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental sustainability, strategy and operations. She has led work on a range of issues including agriculture, environmental management, biodiversity conservation, climate change, infrastructure, energy, transport, and water resources management and hydro-diplomacy.

Between 1999 and 2014, Ms. Andersen held several leadership positions  at the World Bank including Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa; Vice President for Sustainable Development and Head of the CGIAR Fund Council.

Prior to her 15 years at the World Bank, Ms. Andersen worked 12 years at the United Nations, first on drought and desertification, beginning with the UN Sudano-Sahelian Office. In 1992, she was appointed UNDP’s Water and Environment Coordinator for the Arab Region.

Ms. Andersen holds a Bachelors from the London Metropolitan University North and a Masters in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.