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Professor Ramesh Thakur PhD is emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and a Brownstone Institute Senior Scholar. Born in India and educated in India and Canada, he has held full time academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia and been a consultant to the Australian, New Zealand and Norwegian governments on international security issues. He has served on the international advisory boards of policy-oriented research institutes in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. He is a founder-member of Australians for Science and Freedom and a director of Children’s Health Defense Australia. His books include Global Governance and the UN (Indiana University Press), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford University Press), and The United Nations, Peace and Security (Cambridge University Press). He has published opinion articles in Asahi Shimbun, Asian Wall Street Journal, Australian, Australian Financial Review, die tageszeitung, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Guardian, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, International Herald Tribune, Japan Times, Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Times of India, and Washington Post.
Dr Thi Thuy Van Dinh moved from Viet Nam to study law in France, obtaining a PhD in law at the University of Limoges. Completing the United Nations National Competitive Examination in Legal Affairs, she joined the UN Secretariat to support the implementation of anti-corruption and human rights treaties in the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Subsequently, at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund (USA), she managed multilateral organization partnerships and led environmental health technology development efforts for low-resource settings. She currently advises on procedural and policy matters related to UN entities in general and the WHO in particular.
Dr Silvia Behrendt is a lawyer based in Salzburg, with a PhD in international law from the University of St Gallen (Switzerland), and Georgetown (USA) examining the executive authority of the WHO Director-General during Public Health Emergencies of International Concern, and co-drafted the WHO’s first Legislative Toolkit of the International Health Regulations at the WHO IHR Secretariat 2008. She subsequently worked as a temporary WHO adviser advising Ministries of Health on the implementation of the IHR. Dr Behrendt is founder and Director of the Global Health Responsibility Agency, a non-governmental organization seeking to foster a rational approach to international public health.
Professor Garrett Wallace Brown is Chair of Global Health Policy at the University of Leeds. He is Co-Lead of the Global Health Research at Leeds and WHO collaborator on evidence and analytics for health emergencies. His research focuses on global health governance, health financing, health system strengthening, health equity and estimating the costs and funding of pandemic preparedness and response. He has over 25 years of research and policy experience, has published over 100 articles in global public health, and has worked with NGOs, governments in Africa, the UK Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, the UK Cabinet Office, World Health Organization, G7 and G20.
Professor Wellington Oyibo is a Tropical Diseases Specialist, Professor and consultant Medical Parasitologist at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Idi-Araba, Lagos (Nigeria). With over two and a half decades of experience working in the space of tropical diseases and over 120 papers published in peer review journals, Wellington continues to contribute to tropical diseases research and scholarship. He is the Director of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Research in Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (CENTRAL-NTDs) and a Bioethics Fellow of the NIH-sponsored South Africa Research Ethics Initiative (SARETI).
Dr Amrei Müller is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in law. She obtained a PhD Degree in Law from the University of Nottingham. Her areas of expertise are European and international human rights law, international health law and international humanitarian law. Dr Muller has convened diverse international legal opinion on the implications of the evolving nature of the WHO.
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Professor Elisabeth Paul holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Liège (Belgium), with a thesis on the application of incentive theory to the improvement of public resource management in developing countries. She combines an academic and field career, with about a hundred technical support, evaluation and research missions to her credit, mainly in West Africa. She is currently Associate Professor at the School of Public Health of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and the Director of the Research Center on “Health Policies and Systems - International Health”. She teaches various courses related to health policies (planning and evaluation), health financing and health systems (performance) analysis. She is also an independent consultant, and a former member of the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund and of the Independent Review Committee of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Her areas of expertise are global health systems and policies, performance-based financing, international aid and public finance management.
Professor Reginald M.J. Oduor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nairobi (Kenya), with thirty-five years of teaching experience. He is a member of the Pan-African Epidemic and Pandemic Working Group. He has written feature articles on Covid-19 vaccine mandates, the growing centralization and corporatization of medical care, the draft WHO pandemic agreement, and amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations. He has also spoken in several webinars and press conferences on the emerging global public health architecture, with an emphasis on the need to uphold medical ethics and public health ethics. He is the first person with total visual disability to be appointed to a substantive teaching position in a public university in Kenya. He is also Co-Founder and Chair of the Nairobi-based Society of Professionals with Visual Disabilities (SOPVID).
