The members of the NCD Advisory Council are referred to as councillors. These are experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds, including high-level health policy-makers and leaders, renowned academic and clinical experts on NCDs, and representatives of special interest groups, such as patient, professional or health services provider organizations and health or public interest nongovernmental organizations.

Chair

Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge

WHO Regional Director for Europe

Members

Rifat Atun
Professor of Global Health Systems, Faculty Chair for the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program, Harvard University, United States of America

Birgit Beger
Chief Executive Officer, European Heart Network (EHN)

Sergey Boytsov
Director-General, National Medical Research Centre for Cardiology, Russian Federation

Adalberto Campos Fernandes
Professor of Health Strategies, National School of Public Health, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, and former Minister of Health of Portugal

Stefano Del Prato
President, European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)

Paul Dendale
Head of the Department of Cardiology, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium, and European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

Daniel Dîrul
Regional Director for Europe, International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA)

Nathalie Farpour-Lambert
President, European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)

Tom Frieden
President and Chief Executive Officer, Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies

Gauden Galea
WHO Representative, China

Amiran Gamkrelidze
Director-General, National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health, Georgia

Monique Goyens
Director-General, The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC)

Eva Hummers
Honorary Secretary, World Organization of Family Doctors, Europe (WONCA Europe)

Génon Jensen
Executive Director, Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)

Sanja Musić Milanović
School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Head of the Health Promotion Division, Croatian Institute of Public Health, and Head of the Reference Centre of the Ministry of Health for Health Promotion, Croatia

Iveta Nagyova
President, European Public Health Association (EUPHA)

Jürgen Rehm
Head of the Epidemiological Research Unit, Dresden University of Technology, Germany, and Department of International Health Projects, Institute for Leadership and Health Management, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Franco Sassi
Professor of International Health Policy and Economics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Veronika Skvortsova
Head of the Federal Agency, Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA), and former Minister of Health of the Russian Federation

Benoit Vallet
Director General, Agence Régionale de Santé Hauts-de-France, France

Aurelijus Veryga
Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair of the Committee on Health Affairs, Lithuania, and former Minister of Health of Lithuania

Maxim Yermalovich
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland