Professor Ilona Kickbusch

Ilona Kickbusch is the founding director and chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Professor Kickbusch has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organization and Yale University. She is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. She acts as Council Chair to the World Health Summit in Berlin and is vice-president of the European Health Forum Gastein. She has been involved in German G7 and G20 activities relating to global health and the global health initiatives of the German EU presidency in 2020. She is co-chair of a Lancet FT Commission on “Governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world.” She chaired the international advisory board for the development of the German global health strategy. She was key instigator of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and WHOs Healthy Cities Network and has remained a leader in this field. She has been awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in recognition of her invaluable contributions to innovation in governance for global health and global health diplomacy. She works as an independent global health consultant based in Brienz, Switzerland.