Marleen Temmerman

Former Director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) at the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, the main the United Nations instrument for research in women’s health. Dr. Temmerman is currently Chair of the Department of OB-GYN and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women, Child and Adolescent Health at the Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi and a full Professor of OB-GYN at Ghent University in Belgium. She has over 500 publications and books in the area of women’s health, and several awards and honors. In 2007, she was elected as Senator in the Belgian Parliament where she was member of the Committee on Social Affairs, and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.