About me
Prof Marleen Temmerman is Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University East-Africa and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, Kenya. She has enormous experience in academia and political international organisations, particularly in collaboration with United Nations organizations and the European Union, the African Union, national governments in Europe and Africa. Prof Temmerman was elected as a Senator to the Belgian Parliament from 2007 to 2012 as a member of the Commission on Social Affairs, and Chair of the Commission on Foreign Affairs. She was Director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the WHO, Geneva.