Ok Pannenborg
Former World Bank Chief Health Advisor/Director and Chief Health Scientist (The Netherlands)
Ok Pannenborg has been active in global health for over fifty years. He lived and worked in many countries in Africa and Asia, working, among others, on malaria and leprosy, vaccines & drug development, reproductive health, health workforce and medical education innovation, and medical research. At the World Bank he oversaw its health research and innovation engagements and was deeply involved in its health systems investments. He also served as a director at the Pan-American Health Organization, as the Chairman of the Netherlands Commission on Global Health Research, was a co-founder of the Roll-back-Malaria partnership and served on the boards of the Tropical Disease Research Program, the Onchocerciasis program, the IntraHealth International Board and many other public and private global health organizations and agencies, as well as global health committees of national academies of sciences. He chaired the World Bank's Pandemic Committee between 2003 and 2009 and was closely involved in the global Ebola response.
Dr. Pannenborg has published several books and many articles in the various fields of global health, and holds degrees in law and in international relations, tropical medicine and public health, and business.