Sabin Nsanzimana

Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana is the Minister of Health of Rwanda since November 2022. He previously served as Director General of the University Teaching Hospital of Butare and the Rwanda Biomedical Centre.

He holds extensive experience in infectious disease and non-communicable diseases programs design, strategic planning and implementation science. 

Chatib Basri

Dr. Muhamad Chatib Basri, a former Minister of Finance of Indonesia and former Chairman of the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Pandemic Fund. 

Dr. Basri is now the Chairman of the PT Bank Mandiri tbk. and also Chairman of the PT XL-Axiata tbk. 

Xu Ming

Dr Ming Xu is a Professor and PhD supervisor, Dean of the Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Associate Dean of the Institute for Global Health and Development at Peking University. His research areas are mainly focused on international development cooperation and global public goods for health, and international financing for health. He has a PhD in industrial economics and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in corporate strategic management at Peking University Guanghua School of Management.

Ximena Garzon-Villalba

Dr. Garzón is an experienced professional in Public Health, appointed as Minister of Health from May 2021 to July 2022. She was member of the IVI Board of Trustees representing Ecuador in 2022. Currently, she is Dean of Public Health at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. 

Stefano Vella

Degree in Medicine.

Specialty in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine.

Extensive experience on major pandemics, specifically on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected diseases.

Former President of the International AIDS Society [IAS]. Co-chair of the International Conference in Durban, South Africa, 2000.

Member of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight Tuberculosis, AIDS and Malaria, and Member of the Technical Revie Board (TRP): Chair of numerous WHO therapeutic guidelines for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Rebecca Katz

Dr. Rebecca Katz is a Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, and holds joint appointments in Georgetown University Medical Center and the School of Foreign Service. 

She leads a research team focused on global health diplomacy, financing for health security, implementation of the International Health Regulations, and global governance of public health emergencies. 

Rajeev Sadanandan

Rajeev Sadanandan is a health policy and systems expert based in Kerala, India. Till recently he was the CEO of Health System Transformation Platform, a think tank on health policy and systems in New Delhi. Prior to that he had worked as health secretary of Kerala state, CEO of India’s national social health insurance programme, in addition to holding many other positions in state and federal governments. Rajeev worked for a brief stint in UNAIDS and was lead consultant on WHO SEARO’s Pandemic Preparedness Roadmap for 2023-27. 

Paritosh Kumar Biswas

Paritosh is a veterinarian and a professor of microbiology and veterinary public health at the Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU), Bangladesh. 

As the animal health laboratory capacity building lead, he is also supporting the Fleming Fund Country Grant. He had experience working with FAO and the World Bank. 

Osman Ahmed Dar

Osman Ahmed Dar is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK) specialized in public health medicine and communicable disease control. He has wide ranging international experience of health system strengthening, humanitarian response and global health security having lived and worked across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.