Professor Michel Kazatchkine has over 35 years of experience in global health as a leading physician, researcher, administrator,advocate, policymaker, and diplomat. He attended medical school in Paris and completed postdoctoral fellowships at St. Mary’shospital in London and Harvard Medical School. He is Emeritus Professor of Immunology at René Descartes University in Parisand has authored or co-authored over 500 scientific publications. Professor Kazatchkine has played key roles in variousorganizations, serving as Director of the national Agency for Research on AIDS in France and French ambassador on HIV/AIDSand communicable diseases. In 2007, Professor Kazatchkine was elected Executive Director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria, a position in which he served until March 2012. Between 2012 and 2017, Professor Kazatchkine servedas the UN Under Secretary General and Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Since 2018, he isthe Special Advisor to the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He is also SeniorFellow with the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, and a memberof the Global Commission on Drug Policy. Professor Kazatchkine holds Honorary Degrees from Imperial College, London, the Free University of Brussels, the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Geneva. He is an Officer of the Légion d’Honneur in France and the recipient of several other national Orders and national/ international awards.