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

Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Havard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (USA)

Helen Herrman AO

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

Dr Afzal Javed

President World Psychiatric Association (UK)

Roy Abraham Kallivayalil

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

Rachid Bennegadi

President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) (France)

Alfred Pritz

President of the World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP) (Austria)

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)

Gordana Milavic

Chair of ACAMH, President Elect and member of the Psychiatry Council of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK)

Juan E. Mezzich

Secretary General of the International College of Person Centered Medicine (USA)

David M. Clark

Director of the Oxford Center for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma University of Oxford (UK)

Bruno Falissard

Past Immediate President of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (France)

Emilia Afrange

Director at Instituto do Prematuro (Brazil)

Judy Kuriansky

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

Christine Roland-Lévy

President of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) (France)

Joaquim Quintino-Aires

Aires Founder and Director of the Vygotsky Institute

Darlyne G. Nemeth

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

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)

Bährer-Kohler Sabine

President Association for Mental Health- Global Mental Health, BPW (Business and Professional Women) International- United Nations (UN) Representative Geneva, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative Geneva (Switzerland)

Hans-Werner Gessmann

Director of the International Center for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (ICCPP) (Germany)