_Opening Keynote:
Do profits drive social and environmental change or vice versa?
Do profits drive social and environmental change or vice versa?
Derek Yach, SVP of Global Health and Agricultural Policy, PepsiCo
Derek Yach has played a leading global role in many aspects of NCDs within the private, public and Foundation world for the last 2 decades. He is senior vice president of Global Health and Agricultural Policy at PepsiCo and leads new initiatives related to sustainable agriculture and nutrition in Africa. He has headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, been Professor of Global Health at Yale University, and is a former Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO). At the WHO he served as cabinet director under Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland for Non Communicable Diseases and Mental Health where he led development of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the Global Strategy on Diet and Physical Activity and WHO’s World Health Report on Mental Health. Dr. Yach established the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles covering the breadth of global health. These include leading thought pieces within NCDs over the last 20 years. He serves on advisory boards of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Chicago Council on International Affairs’ Agricultural Development Initiative, the World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture, the NIH’s Fogarty International Centre and the World Food Program USA. He is regular plenary speaker and moderator of global and national meetings related to health and development. Dr. Yach has degrees in medicine (Cape Town), public health (Johns Hopkins) and an honorary DSc from Georgetown University.
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