Maka Gogia
Maka Gogia is a programme director of HIV prevention/harm reduction program in Georgia. She has higher medical education and master’s degree in public health. Besides the programme management, she is a technical advisor, trainer and consultant of HIV/HCV community organisations in Georgia. During the last twelve years she is engaged in advocating better accessibility to HIV, HCV, TB and STI treatment and prevention services for key affected population. She is the Vice-Chair of the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) Board of Directors, steering committee member of European Testing Week, focal point of Correlation Network, Global Fund EECA constituency member and member of the Regional Collaborating Committee on Accelerated Response to Tuberculosis, HIV and Viral Hepatitis (RCC-THV) at the World Health Organization.
Charles Clift
Charles Clift, Vice-Chair of the MPP, was one of three founding members of the Medicines Patent Pool. In this capacity, he shepherded the foundation through the successful completion of its Unitaid-approved five-year project plan and renewed plan with a broader mandate. Charles has held a wide range of roles during his career as an economist with the United Kingdom’s (UK) Department for International Development (DFID). He worked as an intellectual property expert at UK Commission on Intellectual Property Rights and at the World Health Organization Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health.
Sigrun Møgedal
Dr. Sigrun Møgedal guided the MPP during its period of expansion into tuberculosis and hepatitis C and oversaw the reform of the foundation’s governance and operational systems. She is a medical doctor and former Special Adviser to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, former Ambassador for HIV/AIDS for Norway, and former Chair of the Board for the Global Health Workforce Alliance at the World Health Organization. Sigrun also served as a senior advisor to the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and was awarded the status of Knight First Class in the Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav.
