Simon Gottwalt

Simon Gottwalt is the project lead for the implementation of the Swiss antibiotic resistance strategy in the human sector at the Federal Office of Public Health’s Infectious Disease Division since 2021. Previously, he was program officer at the NGO Biovision in Zurich, responsible for managing development projects in Kenya and Ethiopia on tropical diseases and One Halth. He worked for the WHO in the area of access to medicines, financing of research and development and antibiotic innovation. Simon Gottwalt is a molecular biologist by training with a special focus on infectious diseases and drug development and a fellow of the Mercator Fellowship on international affairs.