Kazatchkine

Michel

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’s hospital in London and Harvard Medical School. He is Emeritus Professor of Immunology at René Descartes University in Paris. 

Professor Kazatchkine has played key roles in various organizations, serving as Director of the national Agency for Research on AIDS in France and French ambassador on Global health. 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 2020, Professor Kazatchkine served as the UN Secretary General Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Special Advisor to the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).   

He is currently a Senior advisor to the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization (https://www.who.int > Europe); a Senior Fellow with the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva (https://graduateinstitute.ch) and a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (https://globalcommissionondrugs). 

Professor Kazatchkine has recently served as a member of the Independent panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response (https://theindependentpanel) and is, currently, an Institute of Global Politics (IGP) distinguished Fellow, SIPA, at Columbia University. 

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.