Pradeep KakkattilPradeep Kakkattil is responsible for building and implementing an?innovation culture?designed to generate new and innovative solutions for the broader health and HIV response globally at UNAIDS. He is also the co-founder of the Health Innovation Exchnge (HIEx), a multilayered platform that connects governments, policy makers, innovators and investors to leverage innovations and technology towards scaling up access to health. HIEx has helped raise over $200m in investments for scaling up health innovations and bridges innovators in the global South and North and ministries of health to facilitate adoption of health technologies to fast-track progress towards SDGs. He has worked in several countries in various capacities and has contributed to health, social empowerment and development and led the UNAIDS engagement and successful adoption by the UN General Assembly of the High-Level Political Declaration on AIDS in 2016. He also helped conceptualize and negotiated the launch of the Solar for health initiative of the International Solar Alliance that brings over 86 member states and has committed to energy security for health sector as a priority. Read More Read Less