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Medical Doctor and global entrepreneur (Founder, Executive Chair, CEO various ventures)

Marie is a medical doctor (MD), former professor at Columbia University and a global visionary entrepreneur with 25 years’ experience across 4 continents (US/Europe/Asia, and Africa) in disruptive, high-impact start-ups, AI-driven health and medical technologies, medicine, national healthcare delivery systems, private equity, investment finance, clinical research, global pharma, and global philanthropy. Her start-ups are collectively active in +42 countries. Widely regarded as a key innovator in global healthcare and one of the world’s most successful high-impact entrepreneurs, Marie has been designated as a “Woman of Note” by the WSJ for her role in re-defining high-impact healthcare investing and innovation in the global private equity industry. As a result, Marie has been appointed by the European Commission to serve on the IMCO for innovation investments for the $110B Horizon Europe Fund, as well as serving as an expert, evaluator & mentor under several other European Commission international investment programmes (EISMEA, HADEA, EIT Health etc). Marie is also frequently referred to as the “Joan of Arc of 21st Century Medicine” in the international media, and she is credited with having saved millions of lives throughout the developing world through her global social enterprise (Global Medic Force), which she founded and where she for 20 years, led the recruitment, training, and operational deployment of +2,000 fellow physicians from 18 western nations across 4 continents, representing +30,000 man-years of the highest quality medical expertise, or an $8B annual medical human capital value transfer. No government on earth possesses a volunteer medical resource equal to that created by Marie. As such, she has been appointed as a representative with consultative status to the United Nations General Assembly; the UN Economic and Social Council; the UN Human Rights Council and other UN intergovernmental bodies. Marie is the recipient of multiple international awards for her services to global healthcare. Her work as a global innovator and high impact entrepreneur have been extensively featured internationally in the media (BBC, the Economist, PBS Television Network Documentary etc) and she has an extensive list of professional medical publications to her name. She is also a regular keynote speaker at many of the most notable global healthcare and investment conferences. Her professional distinctions include Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine; Fellow of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; Member of the Royal College of Physicians; Member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network; and Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Professionally she serves/has served as: Executive Chair of Tiger Global Holdings; Chair of Tiger Environmental Technologies; Founding Managing General Partner of Tiger Healthcare Private Equity; Founder, Chair Emeritus and CEO of Global Medic Force; and Founder and Managing Director of PharmAccess International. Her personal interests include classic military aviation and expedition diving as a closed-circuit rebreather technical diver, master diver, rescue diver, nitrox diver and deep diver. Marie obtained her Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) at KU Leuven (Belgium) and her Master’s in International Affairs (MIA) at Columbia University in NYC. Marie is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global leadership Network.