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Thomas Zeltner
President, Swiss Red Cross and WHO Foundation and Sciana Advisor Cohort 3-5, Switzerland
Swiss Red Cross
leadership vision
Walk the talk and this as a team.
my story
A long and creative history of collaboration with Ilona Kickbusch and the Careum Foundation; Served as Senior Ambassador and Senior Advisor for the Sciana Network.
about me
Thomas Zeltner is born in Bern (Switzerland). He graduated with an MD and a Master's degree in Law from the University of Bern. Since 1992 he has been Professor of Public Health at the University of Bern.
He is President of the UNESCO-Commission of Switzerland and of the Swiss Red Cross.
He is the founder and first chairman of the WHO Foundation. The WHO Foundation is a grantmaking organization with the objective of addressing the most pressing global health challenges of tomorrow by raising significant new funding for WHO from non-traditional sources.
He serves as Deputy Chair of the University Council of the Medical University of Vienna (Austria) and chairs the Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction (Zürich).
As Secretary of State for Health and Director General of Health Thomas Zeltner represented Switzerland at the World Health Organization, WHO (1991-2009). He was member and Vice-President of WHO's Executive Board (1999-2002). More recently he served as Special Envoy for WHO (2012-14).
Books & Publications
Meet the Partners
Sciana: The Health Leaders Network is a programme supported jointly by the Health Foundation (UK), Careum (CH) and the Bosch Health Campus (DE) in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar.
