Leadership
Presidents
Balvir S. TomarInternational President 2025
Founder and Chancellor, NIMS University
Axel R. PriesWorld Health Summit PresidentManagement
Carsten Schicker
CEOCouncil
The World Health Summit Council advises in major strategic aspects concerning the WHS main conferences, other events and products as well as in the development of the WHS community and the global, regional and national positioning of the WHS.
Co-Chairs
Ilona Kickbusch
Founding Director, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Elhadj As Sy
Chair, Kofi Annan Foundation
Members
Ricardo Baptista Leite
HealthAI & UNITE - Parliamentarians Network for Global Health
Christoph Benn
The Joep Lange Institute
Mukul Bhola
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Jagan Chapagain
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Francesca Colombo
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Manfred Dietel
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Johanna Hanefeld
Robert Koch Institute
Lisa Heinrich
Wellcome Trust
Chikwe Ihekweazu
World Health Organization (WHO)
Ashish Jha
Brown University
Tobias Kahler
Gates Foundation
Beate Kampmann
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Neema Kaseje
Surgical Systems Research Group & Lodwar County Referral Hospital
Gabriel Leung
Institute of Philanthropy
Ethel Maciel
Ministry of Health Brazil
Latifat Okara
Economist Impact
Ole Petter Ottersen
University of Oslo
Magda Robalo
UHC2030 Steering Committee
Smitha Sadasivan
Civil Society Engagement Mechanism for UHC2030 (CSEM)
Christine Stegling
UNAIDS
Andrew Ullmann
German Parliament, Subcommittee for Global Health
Carla Vizzotti
Ministry of Health Argentina (until 2023)
Andrea Winkler
Technical University of Munich
Ambassadors
The World Health Summit Ambassadors are appointed to personally represent the World Health Summit around the world in order to communicate its cause, widen its network, consolidate its structure and strengthen its impact.
Ayoade Alakija
Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator), World Health Organization (WHO)
Bernhard Schwartländer
Global Health Envoy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs