Prof. Barbara Rath is a board-certified pediatric consultant and infectious disease specialist with 20 years experience in clinical trials, public health and virology in the US, Latin America and Europe. Dr. Rath is honorary professor at the University of Nottingham School of Medicine, UK and board member at the International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses (ISIRV). Dr. Rath received her medical school education in Germany, the United States and Spain, and her doctoral degrees from the University of Basel, Switzerland and the University of Besançon, France. In addition to a post-doctoral fellowship at the Stanford Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine, she has received pediatric residency and infectious disease subspecialty training at Duke and Tulane Universities, USA. Recent research focuses on defining a precision medicine approach to managing pediatric patients with acute viral infections. In collaboration with the Robert Koch Institute she developed innovative real-time surveillance programs for the monitoring of influenza-like illness and the immuno-safety of vaccines and antivirals in infants and children. Dr. Rath is co-founder and chair of the Vienna Vaccine Safety Initiative, an international think tank and non-profit-organization focused on new avenues for the treatment, communication and prevention of infectious diseases.

Knud Berthelsen teaches international strategy & marketing with focus on China and India in the MBA, Professional MBA, and Master of Management programs at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business.

Before moving to New Orleans he spent a decade in free-market think tanks and politics in his native country of Norway, the Nordic Countries, and the US.

Berthelsen holds an MBA with concentrations in International Business, Strategic Management & Leadership from Tulane University, a BA in North-American Studies from the University of Oslo, and a Global Business Professional Certification from NASBITE.