The guest bloggers enrich the blog thanks to their specialist contributions. These unique contributors are professionals (journalists, researchers, professors,...) invited to write an article on a topic of their choice. Thanks to them, ID4D aims at offering a broader range of topics going from specialized themes to more general ones. Finally, these writers from different backgrounds will give the blog a more in-depth reflection and give rise to divergent positions in order to maintain the debate.
Dr Margaret Chan
Dr Chan was appointed to the post of Director-General of the World Health Organization on 9 November 2006. Her term will run through June 2012.
In 2003, Dr Chan, from the People's Republic of China, joined WHO as Director of the Department for Protection of the Human Environment. In June 2005, she was appointed Director, Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response as well as Representative of the Director-General for Pandemic Influenza. In September 2005, she was named Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases.
In 1994, Dr Chan was appointed Director of Health of Hong Kong. In her nine-year tenure as director, she launched new services to prevent the spread of disease and promote better health. She also introduced new initiatives to improve communicable disease surveillance and response, enhance training for public health professionals, and establish better local and international collaboration. She effectively managed outbreaks of avian influenza and of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
2010/07/22 - DR MARGARET CHAN: Sustaining commitment to the MDGs
Eckhard Deutscher
Mr. Eckhard Deutscher has been the Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since January 2008.
Mr. Deutscher has extensive experience in the politics and economics of international aid. Prior to his post as DAC Chair, Mr. Deutscher was the German Executive Director to the World Bank from 2002 to 2008 and Dean of its Board of Executive Directors from 2006 to 2008. He also held the post of Director of the Centre for Democratic Studies on Latin America, based in Costa Rica, and lectured at universities in Mexico and Peru. From 1991-2000, Mr Deutscher was Director of the German Foundation for International Development (now INWENT). He holds PhDs in Development Studies, and in Social Science and Philosophy from the University of Frankfurt.
Anders Nordström
The launch of our new version of the blog comes at the time of the EDDs. For the occasion we have invited Anders Nordström, Director General of SIDA and co-organiser of the EDDs to be our very first guest blogger. Come and read his post Women’s participation - a key to peace-building and poverty reduction in post-conflict situations and comment on it.
Anders Nordström is Director General of SIDA since January 2008. Before taking this position, he was Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Anders Nordström has a solid background in international development cooperation: since 2003 he was working at the WHO in Geneva, where between May 2006 and January 2007 he was acting Director-General. He has previously worked for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva, for Sida in Stockholm and Zambia, and for the Red Cross in Cambodia and Iran. Anders has also worked as a medical practitioner.
2009/10/19 - ANDERS NORDSTRÖM: Women’s participation - a key to peace-building and poverty reduction in post-conflict situations
Show other posts of ID4D guests :
- 2010/07/22 - DR MARGARET CHAN: Sustaining commitment to the MDGs
- 2010/07/07 - ECKHARD DEUTSCHER: Development cooperation needs greater coherence: how can all policies be geared towards development goals?
- 2009/10/19 - ANDERS NORDSTRÖM: Women’s participation - a key to peace-building and poverty reduction in post-conflict situations
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