Speakers

Ms. Stella Kyriakides is the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety since 2019, year in which she was Vice President of the European People's Party (EPP) at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and a Member of the EPP Ethics Committee. Previously she has been a member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus, a role which she has combined with her responsibilities as Vice President of the Democratic Rally Party (DISY), Head of the Cyprus Delegation to the PACE, and has held different managerial postions at PACE. Trained as psychologist, Ms. Kyriakedes has been President of the National Committee on Cancer Strategy (2017-2019) and President of the European Breast Cancer Coalition Europa Donna (2004-2006), after working for many years as clinical psychologists at the Ministry of Health, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1979-2006).