Organizing Committee | Congress on Mental Health: Meeting the needs of the 21st Century

President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, Honorable Chairman of the International Organizing Committee (Germany)

Shekhar Saxena

Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO

Helen Herrman AO

President of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) (Australia)

Afzal Javed

President Elect of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) (Pakistan and UK)

Ricardo Guinea

President of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR) (Spain)

Roy Abraham Kallivayalil

President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP), Secretary General of the World Psychiatric Association (India)

Hans-Horst Konkolewsky

ISSA Secretary General (Denmark)

Alfred Pritz

President of the World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP), General secretary of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP)

Antonio E. Puente

Professor of Psychology University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNСW) (USA)

Wolfgang Gaebel

Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Quality Assurance and Empowerment in Mental Health, President of the European Scientific Association on Schizophrenia and other Psychoses (ESAS) (Germany)

Zsuzsanna Szilvasy

President of the Autism Europe (Hungary)

Mario Barbagallo

Chairman of the Clinical Section of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics-European Region (IAGG-ER) (Italy)

Carol Povey

Director of the National Autistic Society (UK)

Nicole Aknin

President of ECPP - French Branch (European Confederation of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy)

Gordana Milavic

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital (Serbia and UK)

Edward Chan

President of the Malaysian Association of Psychotherapy (Malaysia)

Richard Wynne

Coordinator of the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion (Ireland)

Mohammad Khodayarifard

Vice-president of the World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP) (Iran)

Emilia Afrange

President of the Latin-American Federation of Psychotherapy (Brasil)

Judy Kuriansky

Main representative of the International Association of Applied Psychology and the World Council of Psychotherapy to the United Nations (USA)

Joaquim Quintino-Aires

Aires Founder and Director of the Vygotsky Institute

Alfried Längle

President of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Austria)

Darlyne G. Nemeth

WCP's Co-Secretary General, Director NCLA (USA)

Norbert Skokauskas

Chair of the World Psychiatric Association, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry section and the Editor of "World Child and Adolescent Psychiatry" (Norway)

Jan Burns

Head of Eligibility for the International Federation for Para-athletes with Intellectual Disabilities (INAS) (UK)

Oleg А. Skugarevsky

Chairman of the Belorussian Psychiatric Association (Belorussia)

Rachid Bennegadi

President-Elect of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP), Director of the Teaching and Research Pole of MINKOWSKA Center Paris (France)

Murali Thyloth

WARP President Elect, Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, MS Ramaiah Medical College and Hospitals, Bangalore (India)