Emily T. Blitz is a global advocacy professional with over twenty-five years experience in public relations, multicultural team leadership and stakeholder engagement. She has intimate knowledge of all programmatic and logistical aspects involved with implementing online and onsite events for 25 to 25,000 participants. At home in an international environment, her specialties include project management, event communications, presentation skills, protocol, VIPs, strategic programme design, stakeholder engagement and donor support. Emily is passionate about health and development issues, particularly HIV, TB, NCDs, vaccines, sustainable agriculture, women's rights and children's health. Her early career included communication services for an international research institution, grass-roots health improvement projects and stage management.Emily has coordinated and delivered events in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Thailand and had long-term contracts in The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, the US and Zambia.