Michel Kazatchkine

Kazatchkine graduated medical school at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris then studied immunology at the Pasteur Institute.

Kazatchkine first treated AIDS patients in 1983, and by 1985 had founded a clinic in Paris specializing in AIDS treatment.[2]

Kazatchkine directed the French National Agency for AIDS Research between 1998 and 2005. He is a member of Médecins du Monde and one of the founders of Nova Dona, which is a non-profit organization giving services to drug users in Paris.[2]

In 2004-2007 Kazatchkine served as a Chair of the World Health Organization's Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS and as a member of the WHO's Scientific and Technical Advisory Group on tuberculosis.[2] In February 2005 he also became France's HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases global ambassador and served in this role until 2007.[2]

From 2005 until 2006 Kazatchkine served The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as a vice chair. He became the organization's director in 2007,[2] succeeding Richard Feachem.[3] During his time in office, a pledging conference in 2010 raised less than its lowest target of $13 billion over three years. Also, Kazatchkine became the target of allegations of favouritism in funding a HIV awareness campaign co-ordinated by friends of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, whom he named as the fund's first global Aids ambassador; the charges were later investigated and found baseless by the Fund's board.[4][5] In late 2011, the Fund's board appointed a general manager to oversee day-to-day operations and a new transition plan, effectively reducing Kazatchkine's role to that of chief fund-raiser and public advocate.[6] In January 2012 the Global Fund officially announced that Kazatchkine will step down in March 2012.[7]

Since 2020, Kazatchkine has been serving as a member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR), an independent group examining how the WHO and countries handled the COVID-19 pandemic, co-chaired by Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.[8]

• Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Member of the International Advisory Board (since 2020)[9]
• Open Society Foundations (OSF), Member of Advisory Board on Global Drug Policy[10]
• Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI), Member of the Board[11]

• Official website of Michel Kazatchkine
• Kazatchkine gives a speech on inequality of AIDS treatment in the decade since 2000 Archived 2011-06-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Speech at a meeting of the United States Council on Foreign Relations
• statement on corruption