Yanis Ben Amor

Yanis Ben Amor, who holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology and has more than a decade of research experience in tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in organisations such as the Pasteur Institute, directs the Tropical Laboratory Initiative and coordinates the tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS control programmes with the Millennium Villages Project, currently operating in 10 sub-Saharan African countries. Dr. Yanis Ben Amor is the Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.