Philippe Douste-Blazy ,
Â鶹APP Special Advisor on innovative financing for development (France)
A pioneer in the innovative financing movement, is currently Special Advisor to the Â鶹APP Secretary-General on Innovative Finance for Development, with the rank of Under-Secretary-General.
Douste-Blazy is widely regarded as one of the world¡¯s foremost experts on innovative financing to reach the Millennium Development Goals.
In 2006, he founded, at a ministerial level, the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to Fund Development at the Paris Conference on Innovative Development Financing Mechanisms.
He serves as Special Advisor to the ?High-Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems¡±, co-chaired by Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, and Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
In 2006, he was elected President of UNITAID, a multilateral South-North organization and a global health partnership established under the auspices of the Â鶹APP to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria among the world¡¯s most vulnerable populations. UNITAID is based at the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Douste-Blazy has held several ministerial positions in his native France, including Minister of Health (1993-1995), Minister of Culture and Communication (1995-1997), Minister for Solidarity, Health and Family (2004-2005) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005-2007).
Prior to embracing policy initiatives, Douste-Blazy was a practicing cardiologist and Professor of Public Health at Toulouse University in France.
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