Renate Bähr, Executive Director, German Foundation for World Population (DSW), Germany

Prior to that, Ms. Bähr was DSW’s Vice Executive Director since 1998. She has a long-standing record of successful advocacy, policy and public awareness-raising work in the field of global health and sexual and reproductive health in Germany and Europe. She played the lead role in establishing DSW’s Parliamentary Advisory Committee (PAC) in 2003.

Based on her expertise, Ms. Bähr has become a key advisor to the German government in matters related to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including as member of official delegations to relevant international United Nations Conferences. She participated in the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994. Today, she is DSW’s key advisor to the German parliament on sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Ms. Bähr serves on the board of the Association of German Development Organizations (VENRO) and is heading the working group on the Forum on Global Issues and Development of the Federal Association of German Foundations. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of GIZ (formerly GTZ, the German Technical Co-operation), a founding member of the Foundation Initiative of Hannover and a member of the Council for Education of the German Public Relations Association. Ms. Bähr was awarded an MA in Mathematics and Political Science by the University of Hannover.