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 Imperial College in London and Harvard Medical School. He is Emeritus Professor of Immunology at René Descartes University in Paris.

Kazatchkine has served as Director of the National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS) in France and French ambassador on Global Health. He served as Executive Director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria between 2007 and 2012 and as the UN Secretary General Special Envoy in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and special advisor to UNAIDS from 2012 to 2018.

He is currently a Senior advisor to the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization and a Senior Fellow with the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva. Kazatchkine holds Honorary Degrees from Imperial College, London, the Free University of Brussels, the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Geneva.

Kazatchkine is a founding member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and of the (regional) Eastern and Central European and Central Asian Commission on Drug Policy (ECECACD).  He is also a current member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy’s Steering Committee.

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