Bernhard Schwartlander
Bernhard Schwartländer joined the Peking University Institute for Global Health and Development in March 2025 as co-chair of the Governing Board and Distinguished Research Professor of Global Health. In 2021–2025 he served as global health envoy of Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously he served as assistant director-general and chef de cabinet at the World Health Organization, as well as WHO representative in China, and before that, held senior positions at UNAIDS, the Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Germany’s National AIDS Program and the Robert Koch Institute.
