Michel D. Kazatchkine, MD

Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Professor of Medicine, René Descartes University, Paris

Michel D. Kazatchkine is the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.  He has spent the past 25 years fighting AIDS as a leading physician, researcher, administrator, advocate, policy maker, and diplomat. Before joining the Global Fund, besides being Professor of Immunology at University Paris Descartes and Head of the Immunology Unit of the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris, he played key roles in various organizations, serving as Director of the ANRS (1998-2005) in France, Chair of the WHO’s STAC on HIV/AIDS (2004-2007), member of the WHO’s STAC on TB (2004-2007), and French Ambassador on HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases (2005-2007).