Charlotte Erkhammar has over 30 years’ experience providing strategic communications counselling to some of the most prominent organisations and companies. Currently, Charlotte is the CEO of Kreab Worldwide since 2004. Prior to that, she was CEO of the Swedish business intelligence company Demoskop, SVP and Head of Communications of the JCE Group and the Swedish Exhibition Centre and Vice President at The Swedish Employers’ Confederation. Charlotte Erkhammar is a board member of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, SACC-USA, SACC-NY and British-Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Sweden.

With 16 years' experience working in media, government and communications, Eileen brings a wealth of knowledge and insight when providing clients with solutions to their communications challenges in China's complex market. Eileen advises clients that span the health and pharmaceutical, financial, philanthropy and social sectors by bringing together her deep connections with media and key opinion leaders, as well as her great passion for communications. Her clients cover UN agencies, NGOs, as well as Global 500 companies. She played an essential role supporting the WHO's push for a 100% indoor smoke-free law in Beijing.
Eileen previously worked for the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) – an organization directly supervised by the State Council and the Shanghai municipal party Committee for the Shanghai World Expo. Prior to that, Eileen was an anchorwoman for an investment news program at Liaoning Provincial TV station. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English. Eileen holds a Master of Arts degree in Journalism and Communication from Tsinghua University.

Dr. Bernhard Schwartländer, Global Health Envoy, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also the former Chef de Cabinet of Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO, is a medical doctor and holds a doctorate in medical epidemiology. He received his education and professional training in Germany and the US at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He used to be the WHO Representative in China. Before joining WHO in China, he served as Director for Evidence, Policy, and Innovation at UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva and as the United Nations Country Coordinator on AIDS in Beijing, China. Prior to these assignments, Dr. Schwartländer held a number of senior international positions including the Director for Performance Evaluation and Policy at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV Department; and as the Director of Evaluation and Strategic Information at UNAIDS. In 2000, Dr. Schwartländer undertook a special assignment at the World Bank to perform economic analyses on the cost and impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the responses to it. Prior to joining the United Nations, Dr. Schwartländer was the Director of the national AIDS program in Germany and the Director of the Division of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin, the central biomedical and infectious disease research and reference laboratory of the federal Ministry of Health, Germany. Dr. Schwartländer has published widely in scientific journals and books and taught applied epidemiology in Berlin. He brings extensive experience in development policies as well as infectious disease.