Professor REN Minghui, at the Department of Global Health in the School of Public Health, Peking University (PKU). He is the Director of Institute for Global Heath, the Director of China Center for Health Development Studies, the Director and Chief Expert of Beijing Institute for Health Development PKU, and the Director of World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Universal Health Center Beijing, China. Prof Ren graduated from Xi’an Medical University, Harvard School of Public Health, and Peking University with his PhD. He has been served in the various positions in the Chinese government, including the Division Chief of Health Policy Research and Health Insurance Research, the Director General of International Health Cooperation in the Ministry of Health and National Health and Family Planning Commission China. From 2016 to 2022, Prof Ren worked as the Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Universal Health Coverage/Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases. He has multi-year experience serving in the executive boards of the World Health Organization, the UNAIDS, Unitaid, and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He was awarded the Honourable Mention of the Russian Federation and the Ordre National du Mérite of France.