Igor Rudan is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh and Chair in International Health and Molecular Medicine. He is the Joint Director of the Centre for Global Health Research and the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh, UK. In his international health efforts to reduce global child mortality, he served as a consultant of the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The World Bank, Save the Children, and others. Prof. Rudan was listed among “Croatian Persons of the Year” by all three major Croatian newspapers in 2016. He has been awarded >30 national and international research awards and professional recognitions, including Wellcome Trust’s International Research Development Award (2002), “Scientist of the Year” Award from The Croatian Parliament (2005), Visiting Professorship for Senior International Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012), Chancellor’s Award for Research (2012) and Principal’s Medal for Outstanding service from The University of Edinburgh (2019). In 2016, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).

He published more than 530 research papers and 10 books/monographs, which have received more than 140,000 citations to date. He published four №1 national bestsellers in Croatia in popular science: “The Exact Colour of the Sky” (2017), “Evil Air” (2018), “In the Land of Clans”(2019), and “Awaiting the Fires” (2020). He is both a Croatian and a British citizen.