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Wangdi Karma

Chief Research Officer, Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies

Karma Wangdi currently works as a Chief Research Officer at the Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies (CBS), Thimphu, Bhutan. He has coordinated and led the last GNH survey conducted in 2010 besides co-authoring the survey reports with three other colleagues. He was also the chief coordinator for the 2015 Nation-wide GNH survey conducted 2015. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Bhutan Studies (JBS), a bi-annual publication of the Centre. He also served as a member of the Research Ethics Board of Health (REBH), an Institutional Review Board of the Ministry of Health, Bhutan from 2013 - 2021.

Karma has a Bachelors in Commerce from Sherubtse College in Bhutan and Masters in Business Administration from University of Canberra. He also has a Post Graduate Certificate in Development Management from the Royal Institute of Management.

Speakers

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General, World Health Organization

H.E. Carlos Alvarado Quesada

President of Costa Rica

H.E. Sun Chunlan

Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China

Hon Grant Robertson

Deputy Prime Minister, New Zealand

H.E Alfredo Enrique Borrero Vega

Vice President of Equador

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai

H. E. Dr Lotay Tshering

Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan

Dr Mathias Cormann

Secretary-General, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Mr Martin Chungong

Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union

Prof. Ilona Kickbusch

The founding director and chair of the Global Health Centre and the Co-Chair of a project on a pandemic treaty at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab

Deputy Director General of WHO, Geneva

Dr Rüdiger Krech

Director, Department of Health Promotion, WHO

Hannah Vaughan Jones

Emmy-nominated journalist, broadcaster, writer and host.

H.E. Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Acting Minister of Health, Arab Republic of Egypt

Dr Faten Ben Abdelaziz

Head of the Enhanced Well-being Unit in the Department of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization Headquarters

Sandro Galea

MD, DrPH, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, USA

Mark Kojo Atuahene

Acting Head of Public Health and Health Promotion Unit of the Ministry of Health

Professor Marco Ackerman

Faculdade de Saúde pública da USP, and CEPEDOC , Brazil

Dra Alejandra Acuña

Executive Secretary Health Ministries Council of Central America, Dominican Republic

Dr Supreda Adulyanon

Chief Executive Officer, ThaiHealth Promotion Foundation

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