Speakers’ CVs
Addicks, Dr Karl
As MP Mr Karl Addicks is Member of the German Parliamentary Committee of Economic Cooperation and Development and speaker on development cooperation for the liberal party (FDP). Being member of the liberal party since 1989, he became Member of the German Parliament in 2004. Dr Addicks worked as company doctor in Nigeria, Iraq, China, and Morocco from 1987-1999. Besides managing a surgery in Germany, he continued to work in the field of development cooperation by supervising a GTZ health project in Morocco. Due to his professional background as medical doctor for general and tropical medicine he is very interested in the linkage of health and development issues.
Alonso, Dr Pedro
Mr Pedro Alonso is Head of the Center for International Health at the Hospital Clinic of the University of Barcelona and Director of Centro de Investigaçao em Saude Manhiça, Mozambique. He serves as Principal Investigator of the RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine clinical trial in Mozambique. Mr Alonso was previously a medical epidemiologist for both the Spanish Council for Scientific Research at the Institute of Parasitology “López Neyra,” and for the U.K. Medical Research Council. After receiving his degree in medicine from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, he went on to earn his M.S. in Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. More recently, he completed his Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona. Mr Alonso’s research relating to malaria has been published in the medical journals Lancet, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Tropical Medicine and International Health.
Bonsmann, Christoph
The pharmacist Mr Christoph Bonsmann works for the German medical Aid Organisation action medeor and is head of the department Pharmacy and Development Cooperation.
One major task is the transfer of pharmaceutical technology to East Africa. In Tanzania he set up a non-profit pharmaceutical wholesaler. Medicines are bought from regional manufacturers, which were previously inspected and approved. Currently he works on a project financed by the European Comission, which involves setting up a pharmaceutical factory in northern Tanzania for the production of high quality antiretrovirals.
Chiguzo, Athuman Nyae
Mr Athuman Chiguzo is Project Coordinator, Malaria Technical Officer of the Sustainable Health Care Foundation (SHEF) since 2006. He also holds the position of Vice-chairman of Kenya NGOs Alliance Against Malaria, bringing together over 44 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). KeNAAM seeks to enhance collaboration through networking in programs aimed at preventing, controlling and reducing socio-economic impacts of malaria. As a Member of the Global Fund Malaria Community Delegation Mr Chiguzo has wide experience with international programs against malaria. He used to work for different development organisations and the Ministry of Health in Kenya. Mr Chiguzo did his MSc on Control of Infectious Diseases at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical, University of London.
Coll-Seck, Prof Awa-Marie
Professor Awa-Marie Coll-Seck is Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership. RBM is a global partnership founded in 1998 by WHO, UNDP, UNICEF and the World Bank, with the goal of halving the world's malaria burden by 2010. Prior to this appointment, Ms Coll-Seck was Minister of Health of the Republic of Senegal (2001-2003). From 1996 to 2001, Ms Coll-Seck served as a Director at the Joint United Nations Programme for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. As Director of the UNAIDS Department of Country and Regional Support she coordinated and mobilized the UN system response to the epidemic while supervising UNAIDS staff serving throughout Africa, Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. After earning a degree in medicine from the University of Dakar, she served for nearly twenty years as a specialist in infectious diseases in leading hospitals in Dakar, Senegal and Lyon, France. In 1989, she was appointed Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of Dakar and Chief of Service for Infectious Diseases at the University Hospital in Dakar.
da Gama, Louis
Mr Louis da Gama is a malaria activist for Global Health Advocates since 2006 and has campaigned both globally and at country and community level for greater financial resources from the donor community to fight malaria. In 2003 Mr da Gama was seconded to the Massive Effort Campaign working on advocacy for AIDS TB Malaria and advocacy to support the Global Fund. He also led the Drop the Malaria Tax Campaign for Massive Effort to hold African leaders accountable for promises made at Abuja declaration in 2000 and facilitated the setting up of the Malaria Foundation International European Office in 1998, working on increasing transparency and accountability of funds and on resource mobilization for fighting malaria. Mr da Gama is a member of several initiatives and workings groups, e.g. Roll Back Malaria (RBM) working groups, a member of the Communities delegation to the Global Fund board representing the malaria community, a member of the Community delegation to the UNITAID board, a member of the WHO GMP Strategic Advisory Group (STAG) and a member of the advisory board of the World Bank Malaria Booster programme. He also serves as strategic adviser to the European Alliance Against Malaria EAAM and the UK Coalition against Malaria CAM.
Duneton, Philippe
Mr Duneton is the Secretary-General of UNITAID International Drug Purchase Facility and the former director of the French drug safety agency (Afssaps). By education Mr Duneton is a medical doctor. After having served as a member of cabinet for two French health ministers, Mr Duneton joined the French Agence du Médicament in 1998 as Secretary-General. He was appointed Director-general of the new Agence Francaise der Sécurité Sanitaire des Prodits de Santé (AFSSAPS) in 1999.
Farlow, Dr Robert
Mr Robert Farlow works for the BASF Company as Manager for Global Research Insecticide Field Biology since February 2004. He started his career at BASF in July 2000 as Manager for Insecticide Project Management and then Manager for Global Insecticide and Nematicide Development. Mr Farlow has 25 Years experience in the agrochemical industry in areas of research development, management and strategic planning and is a key contributor to research and development planning and implementation of business strategy. By education Mr Farlow is Etymologist receiving his Ph.D. on Entomology and Experimental Statistics at Mississippi State University.
Gabriel, Silvio
Mr Gabriel is Executive Vice President and General Manager of Malaria Initiatives at Novartis. In this role, Mr Gabriel has direct responsibility for managing the Novartis initiative on malaria. Mr Gabriel’s responsibilities encompass all aspects of the antimalarial drug Coartem, from development, production and supply to marketing, life cycle management and alliance management with external stakeholders to ensure supply of this lifesaving drug to millions of patients. Mr Gabriel assumed his current role in 2005 from his previous position as Head Novartis Pharma Region Europe which included Africa and the Middle East. He joined the company in 1983 and started his career in various positions at the headquarters in Switzerland, Brazil, Portugal and Germany. After completing his studies in economics with honours at the University of Zurich, Mr Gabriel was active in the areas of Finance, Controlling and Strategic Planning in different companies at Switzerland and USA.
Grabowsky, Mark Dr
Mr Mark Grabowsky is a medical doctor and epidemiologist who is the Malaria Coordinator at the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria. He provides technical advice within the Global Fund on malaria programming and works with partners to provide a Global Fund perspective on new initiatives. Prior to coming to the Global Fund in 2006, Mr Grabowsky was at the American Red Cross where he managed the measles initiative, at WHO in Uganda where he was a medical officer for immunizations, at the National Institutes of Health in Washington where he was the Chief of AIDS vaccine testing and chief of AIDS prevention research. He received his medical training at the Medical College of Virginia and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. His first experience with malaria was as a Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Kenya thirty years ago.
Hentschel, Dr Chris
Mr Chris Hentschel is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) in Geneva, Switzerland. MMV is a not-for-profit Foundation that aims to facilitate the discovery, development and delivery of affordable new drugs for the treatment of malaria. Dr Hentschel graduated in biochemistry from King’s College, London, UK, and obtained a doctorate from the same institution. His early career focused on basic biomedical research, at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, as a lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, and finally as a Fogarty Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Hesse, Dr Gerhard
Dr Gerhard Hesse is Business Manager Vector Control at Bayer Environmental Science in Lyon. He is member of several WHO Expert groups like GCDPP (Global Collaboration for the Development of Public Health Pesticides) and used to be Board Member for the private sector constituency in the RBM Partnership Board (Roll Back Malaria Initiative), Vice Chairman to the RBM Partnership Board and Private Sector advisor to World Bank’s „Booster Program for Malaria Control“. By education Mr Hesse is medical entomologist and doctor in natural sciences.
Kilian, Dr Albert
Mr Albert Kilian is Director Monitoring & Evaluation at the Malaria Consortium with focus on all aspects of M&E and research. In addition his post is covering malaria control design and implementation, policy development including work with the private sector. He works with the Malaria Consortium since 2005. As a Public Health Expert (infectious disease control), Malari¬a Expert, and Pedia¬trician he has 17 years experience working in public health and worked 10 years in developing countries on disease control projects, -programs and health systems mainly in Uganda and Liberia. In addition he worked as Senior Planning Officer for Disease Control in the headquarters of GTZ. Mr Kilian is member of several national associations and societies of Tropical Medicine and member of the “Roll Back Malaria” Technical Network on Malaria and the Technical Review Support Group of the GFATM. Mr Kilian obtained his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1988 and holds a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, USA.
Killick, Susan
Mrs Susan Killick is responsible for the Africa output of the English Service of Deutsche Welle (DW) and joined the Africa English Service of Radio DW, subsequently headed the Africa Desk for several years. She grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was mainly educated in England. Mrs Killick studied Drama and German at the University of Bristol and the Justus Liebig University in Gießen. She went on many trips to Africa, among others for two co-productions in Nigeria as well as in Ghana and Zambia.
Loucq, Dr Christian
Mr Christian Loucq directs the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), which seeks to accelerate the development of promising malaria vaccines and ensure their availability and use in developing countries. Mr Loucq has more than 30 years of experience in medicine, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and global health. His professional experience spans the globe: Born and educated in France, he has lived and worked in Algeria, Belgium, Chad, China, India, the Netherlands, Niger, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. Mr Loucq has managed vaccine businesses in China, India, and Thailand and has been involved in most stages of vaccine development. He has worked with large vaccine companies, such as GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur, and biotech companies including Rhein Biotech and Acambis. He has extensive experience partnering with local governments, building public-private partnerships, and setting up local private collaborations. Mr Loucq earned his state doctorate of human medicine at the University of Paris X and a diploma of public health and tropical medicine from the University of Aix-Marseilles.
Mehra, Sunil
Mr Sunil Mehra brings over 20 years of experience of working with USAID, DFID and other donor programmes and projects. Currently, the Executive Director at the Malaria Consortium, Mr Mehra is recognized for strategic planning and programme development in areas of maternal health, child health, community development and communications. Mr Mehra has worked in over 20 countries in East and South Asia, Middle East, Africa. Mr Mehra specializes in leading cross-cultural teams; development, management and monitoring and evaluation; design and implementation of marketing and communications strategies; institutional development; human resources development including competency-based and problem-based methodologies.
Mockenhaupt, Dr Frank P.
Mr Frank Mockenhaupt is Deputy Director at the Institute of Tropical Medicine & International Health, Charité - University Medicine Berlin since 2006. Since 2001 he is Head of the Malaria Research Group, Institute of Tropical Medicine Berlin supervising and conducting clinico-epidemiological studies on malaria in Ghana as well as responsible for the supervision and the research lab. As Research Associate he started in 1997 conducting different clinico-epidemiological studies on malaria in Nigeria and Ghana for Institute of Tropical Medicine Berlin and the Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Charité - University Medicine Berlin. He graduated in Tropical Medicine and Public Health (DTMPH).
Mr Mockenhaupt is particularly interested in the fields of genetics of host resistance/susceptibility, treatment & drug resistance, pathophysiology of malaria in pregnancy, and interaction with non-communicable diseases.
Mocumbi, Dr. Pascoal
Mr Pascoal Mocumbi is the High Representative of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) since March 2004. EDCTP is a coalition to accelerate the development of new clinical interventions to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, and to improve generally the quality of research in relation to these diseases. Mr Mocumbi was Prime Minister of the Republic of Mozambique from 1994 to 2004. Prior to that, he headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during eight years and the Ministry of Health for 6 years. He received his medical degree from the University of Lausanne, and has practiced medicine as obstetrician and gynaecologist in hospitals throughout Mozambique. Mr Mocumbi also plays an active role in several global health initiatives, serving on the board of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV).
O’Brien, Stephen
Mr Stephen O’Brian was elected the Conservative MP for Eddisbury at the by-election in 1999. Currently he is a Shadow Minister for Health. From May to December 2005, he served as the Shadow Minister for Skills. From November 2003 to 2005, was Shadow Secretary of State for Industry. Previously, he held the post of Shadow Minister for the Treasury. In 2001, he was appointed an Associate of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body. After two years Articles, he qualified as a Solicitor in 1983 and practised until 1988 at solicitors Freshfields (City of London), specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration. In addition, he established his own international business consultancy specializing in corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions. Mr O’Brien is Voluntary Chairman of the Malaria Consortium, Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria, and on Tanzania. In addition he is Vice Chairman of the All Party Aid Trade & Debt Group as well as a voluntary Trustee Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Pastors, Bernd
Mr Pastors started his career at the German Medical Aid Organisation action medeor e.V. in 1985 as Official Speaker Public Relations, then Head of Press and Public Relations and Deputy General Manager. In 1998 he became General Manger and since 2004 he is as CEO Member of the Board. Mr Pastors is banker by profession and graduated in Economics at University Duisburg GH. In addition, Mr Pastors is a Member of Board and Trustee of medicus mundi international, Gemeinsam für Afrika e.V. (GFA) and the Association of German development non-governmental organisations (VENRO). He also serves as a Member of Board of Trustees of Federal Association of German Whole Sale and Foreign Trade e. V.
Phillips, Dr Steven C.
Mr Steven C. Phillips is the Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation, where his responsibilities include overseeing the Corporation's "outside-the-fenceline" community and public health programs throughout its global operations. In this capacity, he has worked closely with governments, NGO's, U.N. agencies, multilateral, faith-based, and community organizations, and the private sector in fostering "public-private partnerships" as a development platform to address urgent global health priorities. Mr Phillips received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Stanford University. He did his post-graduate training in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco, received a Master of Public Health from UCLA, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine. Prior to joining Exxon, Mr Phillips served in the U.S. Public Health Service and was assigned to the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Mr Phillips is a member of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. He currently serves on the Boards of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, malaria NO MORE™, and the World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative. He is also a member of the Harvard School of Public Health's Leadership Council and the advisory panels of Medicines for Malaria Ventures, Episcopal Relief and Development's "NetsforLife" Initiative, the World Bank Malaria Booster Program, and the International Strategic Advisory Group of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria.
Potter-Lesage, Peter
Mr Peter Potter-Lesage, an international finance and banking executive with over 15 years’ experience particularly in the ’not for profit’ finance sector. Specialising in the areas of treasury, foreign exchange, control and cash management operations, he was formerly responsible for global relations with international organizations and institutions at a major Swiss bank.
Sevcsik, Ann-Marie
Ms Sevcsik is Communication Manager of Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi). DNDi was established in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world. It is an independent, needs-driven, not-for-profit entity which will develop new drugs or new formulations of existing drugs for patients suffering from the most neglected communicable diseases – diseases that fall outside the scope of market-driven research and development (R&D), because they do not constitute a profitable market.
Soric, Miodrag
Mr Miodrag Soric was named Editor-in-Chief of DW-RADIO in January 2006. Previously, he had the same position in the Central/Eastern Europe, South-eastern Europe, Africa/Middle East Services and DW-RADIO's Asia Programme. Mr Soric is currently responsible for the German and English services, both of which are present 24 hours a day and around the world. Previously, Mr. Soric, among other posts, was duty editor for the Political Affairs and Business Department of the DW Central Service as well as programme adviser to former director-general Dieter Weirich. In 1995, Mr. Soric was named head of the Russian Service. Mr Soric graduated in Slavonic studies, political sciences and German language and literature studies at the Universities of Köln, Kiew and Moscow.
Stather, Erich
Mr Stather is State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) since 1998. In addition he is member of the supervisory boards of German Technical Development Cooperation (GTZ), DEG and InWEnt. Mr Stather graduated in Social Sciences (M.A.) in Mainz and continued his political career in the social democratic party SPD.
Toussah, Koffi
Mr Koffi Toussah is Secretary General of the association "Amitié et Action pour le développement" which is active in the fight against Malaria since 4 years. The association is a partner organisation of action medeor. As civic educator he was chairing the civic education association "Centre d'Observation et de Promotion de l'Etat de Droit" (COPED) for 6 years. In addition Mr Toussah gained experience in health training and sensitization e.g. through leading sensitization and leprosy cases detection campaigns throughout Togo with the help of the German organisation Aktion Canchanabury for about 14 years.
Mr Toussah was Chief Commissioner of the Scouts association in Togo and Vice President of the African Youth Network. Professionally Mr Toussah was appointed Technical Counsellor of the Ministry in charge of Local Communities in 2006 after teaching English language in high schools.
Walterfang, Gerald M.
Mr Walterfang is the Chief Executive Officer of Kenya NGOs Alliance Against Malaria (KeNAAM) since 2003. He has a wide experience working with NGO-FBO-CBOs, government, private sector, academia, bilateral, and multilateral organizations. As Chief Executive Officer of KeNAAM Mr Walterfang played an active part in enhancing the relations with neighbouring countries dealing with malaria via the Eastern Roll Back Malaria Network. Mr Walterfang did his MA in Communication Studies at the School of Communication Studies, University of Leeds, UK in 1996 and his BA in Political Science (economics/international relations) & Psychology at the University of Victoria, Canada.
