Mrs. Reimer is the Executive Director of the Karen Leung Foundation (“KLF”) and leads all aspects of the Foundation’s operations, fundraising, and development. Additionally, she holds several board advisory roles. Prior to her current remits, Katharina led marketing & communications teams in APAC and acted as strategic media advisor to a number of public sector organisations in the Middle East and Africa. Katharina is a passionate advocate for social change and has been heavily involved in supporting several local charities and philanthropic causes in Hong Kong. She has chaired a number of philanthropic committees and foundation boards. Since joining KLF in 2017, she has substantially grown the organizational budget and added numerous strategic partners and programs that support the Foundation’s vision. Katharina is also a Founding member of the APAC HPV Coalition, a think tank which aims to advance the awareness, prevention and treatment of HPV-related disease. Katharina holds a Bachelor degree from the University of West of England (Bristol, England) and a Master in Economics from the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She has lived in over 20 countries and is fluent in three languages. She currently lives with her husband and their two children in Hong Kong.

Professor Ashrafunnessa, Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, graduated from Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh, received training from home and abroad, obtained Membership and Fellowship from RCOG from Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. Dr Ashrafunnessa obtained PhD from University of Dhaka, in 2004. She is ‘Focal point’ of “Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening Programme” of Government of Bangladesh (GOB) since 2004 and helping to develop screening centers and coloposcopy clinics. Presently she is the Project Director of “Electronic Data Tracking with Population based Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening Programme (2018-2024)”. She is author in more than 50 papers (International Publications-25). She Received ‘Figo award in recognition of women obstetricians/gynaecologists’ during 2009. Recently she has been selected IPVS country ambassador of Bangladesh.

Nayab Waheed is a Vaccinologist by training, working as researcher at the Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination at the University of Antwerp. She is working on HPV vaccination program implementation in LMICs as part of her research and is a Scientific and Technical Lead for HPV Prevention and Control Board and Coalition to Strengthen HPV Immunization Community projects focused at working towards cervical cancer elimination goals.

Mandi Lee is a researcher with the Asia Pacific HPV Coalition and advocates for user-centred experiences in healthcare through evidence-based research. She holds a cross-faculty Master of Science awarded by the School of Medicine and the Division of Industrial Design at the National University of Singapore. Her recent work includes a systematic review of recovery strategies for cervical cancer elimination in LMICs following the COVID-19 pandemic and a qualitative study into the challenges of implementing these strategies in the Asia Pacific region from the stakeholders perspectives.