SUPROTIK BASU
Advisor to the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Malaria
Co-Chair of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership’s Harmonization Working Group
Mr. Suprotik Basu is Advisor to the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Malaria and Co-Chair of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership’s Harmonization Working Group (HWG). He is on leave from the World Bank. Founded in November 2006, the HWG is the Working Group within the RBM Partnership that has been tasked with assisting countries to secure resources, coordinating implementation support, and tracking progress against agreed targets, most notably the 31 December 2010 target of Universal Coverage. Since its founding, the HWG has assisted countries to access over US$2.5 billion in additional resources for malaria control efforts in sub-Saharan Africa.
Prior to his current position, he served as Public Health Specialist for the World Bank’s Booster Program for Malaria Control in Africa where he provided implementation support, technical backstopping, and strategic guidance for over $450 million in grants and interest-free loans for malaria control across 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. Basu played a leading role in the internal review of the Bank’s global malaria control efforts as well as in developing the Bank’s Africa Regional renewed response. In addition to his work in Africa, Mr. Basu led the evaluation of the Bank’s malaria control support to India. Prior to his posting at the World Bank, Mr. Basu worked with the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in Geneva on the Internal Evaluation of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership Secretariat.
Mr. Basu holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, and lives in New York City.
SCOTT CASE
Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, Malaria No More
In 2006, Scott joined the Malaria No More team to inspire individuals and institutions in the private sector to end deaths caused by malaria. Prior to joining Malaria No More he was a founding partner of Priceline.com, the “Name Your Own Price” Internet service. After Malaria No More’s involvement in the Twitter Nets campaign that launch in January 2010, he talked to Think Social about how to use social media to help end the global disease in “Catching up with Malaria No More: “Twitter net” delivery, World Briefing and more“.
SILVIO GABRIEL
Executive Vice President
Head of Malaria Initiatives at Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland
Silvio C. Gabriel is Executive Vice President and Head of Malaria Initiatives at Novartis Pharma AG in Switzerland. In this role, Mr. Gabriel has direct responsibility for managing the Novartis initiative on malaria. This encompasses all aspects of the anti-malarial drug Coartem, from development, production and sourcing to marketing, life cycle management and alliance management with external stakeholders to ensure supply of the lifesaving drug (cure rate higher than 95%) without profit to millions of patients. From 2004 to 2009, the amount of treatments delivered has grown from 4 million to 84 million and reached the milestone of cumulated 300 million treatments contributing to estimated 750,000 lives saved.
Silvio C. Gabriel assumed his current role in 2005 from his previous position as Head of Novartis Pharma Region Europe which included Africa and the Middle East. For 2004, his teams in Region Europe achieved sales of USD 6.2 billion, making Novartis number 4 within the ranking of pharmaceutical companies in Europe and achieving leadership position in customer satisfaction.
He joined the company in 1983 and started his career in various positions at the headquarters in Switzerland and Brazil. From 1988 to 1991, he held the position of CEO of the Pharma Division in Portugal. After two years as assistant to the worldwide Head of the Pharma Sector, he functioned as CEO of the Pharma Organization in Germany from 1994 to 2000 implementing the merger into Novartis.
After completing his studies in economics with honors at the University of Zurich in 1979, he was active in the areas of Finance, Controlling and Strategic Planning in different companies in Switzerland and USA.
ALEX PERRY
Africa Bureau Chief for TIME Magazine
Alex Perry is the Africa Bureau Chief for TIME Magazine. Prior, he was the South Asia Bureau Chief for TIME Magazine. He joined the publication in February 2001 as a staff writer and travel editor in Hong Kong. Perry was also as an editor in Agence France-Presse’s Hong Kong bureau.
Perry has received numerous awards during his career. In March 2002, he was recognized as the first-ever recipient of the Joseph L. Galloway War Correspondents Award, which recognizes excellence in war reporting while educating the public of world conflicts.
PROFESSOR ZUL PREMJI
Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
For more than two decades, Dr. Premji has been involved in the fight against malaria and other neglected diseases. He is currently an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Dr. Premji is also a Fellow at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and member of many organizations including the East African Society for Parasitologists; American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene; National Malaria Control in Tanzania; and the WHO Task Force-Multilateral Initiative for Malaria MIM, among others.
In 2010, Dr. Premji co-authored two publications about the treatment of malaria including an article in The Malaria Journal, “Treatment of asymptomatic carriers with artemether-lumefantrine: An opportunity to reduce the burden of malaria?”