Please find information on our Conference Keynote and Plenary Speakers below.
Keynote Speakers:
Director of Translational Neuro-Prevention Research in the FPG Child Development Institute at University of North Carolina |
Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, UNODC |
Professor in Substance Use at the Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, UK |
Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Faculty Theme Lead of Mental Health, Neuroscience, Ageing and Addictions, UNSW Medicine |
Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health |
President European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR) |
![]() Unit Head, Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours, Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization (WHO) |
Former U.S. Representative Co-chair of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Mental Health & Suicide Prevention National Response to COVID-19 (National Response) and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Behavioral Health Integration Task Force |
President, Applied Prevention Science International
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Clinical psychologist, Center for Treatment of Drug Dependencies in Bratislava, Slovakia |
Head of Research, Data and Information of Indonesia NNB |
![]() Global Master Trainer GDDR (UNODC-ISSUP- 2019) |
Research Scientist at the Public Health Research Centre at New York University Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates
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![]() Assistant Minister of Social Solidarity and Manager of the National Fund for Drug Control and Treatment of Addiction |
Executive Director of Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.) |
Programme Officer, Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section |
CEO Naufar and international consultant for Colombo Plan |
Chief of the Institutional Strengthening Unit of the Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), Secretariat for Multidimensional Security of the Organization of the American States (OAS) |
Director of rehabilitation and consultant psychologist at Greenfield Hospital of Psychiatry |
Implementation coordinator of the School Prevention Program of the Use of Psychoactive Substances |
Pharmacist, researcher, and policy coordinator at the Israel Ministry of Health pharmaceutical crime unit |
Addiction psychiatrist, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Benin City Director of the Nigeria International Technology Transfer Centre (Nigeria ITTC) |
Full time faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Kenyatta University, Kenya Coordinator of the International Consortium of Universities on Drug Demand Reduction (ICUDDR) Africa Region |
![]() Chief of the Countenarcotics Branch for the U.S. Department of State, working within the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Office of Global Programs and Policy (INL/GPP) |
Experimental Psychologist |
President and CEO of Carlton Hall Consulting LLC |
![]() Professor in Addictions and Mental Health, Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, Middlesex University London UK President (2020-2022) International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) |
Full Professor at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Director of the UIB Family Research Laboratory (LIFAC, acronym in Spanish), 30 years of research in family prevention. |
Deputy Director for International Consortium of Universities on Drug Demand Reduction (ICUDDR) |
Director of the master's degree in addictions and addictive behaviors at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and a full-time principal professor in the Academic Department of Psychology of the PUCP |
Senior Foreign Affairs Officer in the Drug Demand Reduction Section of the Office of Global Policy and Programs in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. Department of State |
ISSUP Chapter Ecuador /” Instituto Prevén” Foundation / Secular University “Eloy Alfaro” Manta, Ecuador/Hemisferios University |
Deputy Permanent Secretary responsible for policy implementation, research and programme management in the Ministry of National Security, Trinidad and Tobago |
Teacher with 15 years of experience working with young students, specializing in academic coordinator |
![]() Diego Fernando Riofrío Jaramillo Actualmente preside ISSUP Capítulo Ecuador, es creador de la Fundación Instituto Prevén |
![]() (Consultant) Coordinator of the Case Care Management System program, Institutional Strengthening Unit, Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), Organization of American States (OAS). |
President, IntNSA-Nigeria |
Professor of psychiatry and Chair of the department, United Arab Emirates University |
Associate Professor in the University of Miami’s Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine |
Director of Education and Research at Atma Jaya Hospital Jakarta |
Doctor with 34 years in clinical practice and Diplomate in American College of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders |
Chairman, Bayelsa State Drug Abuse Prevention and Rehabilitation Committee |
Foreign Affairs Officer within the Office of Global Programs & Policy in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. Department of State |
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
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Clinical Counsellor of Substance Use Disorder Therapy and Rehabilitation / Media Developer, KAPETA Foundation
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Community Director of Provincial Drug Court Development and Training Edmonton John Howard Society(EJHS) in partnership with Alberta Justice & Solicitor General(AJSG)
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Head of Addiction Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town |
![]() Gregory Bunt, M.D. FASAM, FISAM Immediate Past President, International Society of Addiction Medicine |
Research Fellow at the directorate of research and publications and the department of haematology and blood transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) |
Psychologist working in the prevention of risk behaviour in cooperation with the Department of Addictology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (CUNI) |
Two decades of experience in Addiction treatment, prevention, research, policy development and training |
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry Director, UCSD Center for Criminality & Addiction Research, Training & Application Director, ITTC-Ukraine |
Director of the Institute of Psychiatry of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |
![]() Clinical Director of the Division of Therapeutics and Medical Consequences (DTMC) of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) HEAL Initiative in Therapeutics Development for Opioid and Stimulant Use Disorders |
Executive Director, Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC) Center for Health and Justice (CHJ), Executive Director, Police, Treatment, and Community Collaborative (PTACC)
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Her Honour Ms. Jacqueline Wilcott Senior Parish Court Judge (Ag) Called to the Bar of England and Wales and Jamaica Appointed to the bench in October 2015 to present |
![]() Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat |
PTACC, UK
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Senior Consultant, ISSUP |
Chief of the Demand Reduction Unit of CICAD
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Counsel and former Prosecutor for over 30 years in Toronto, Canada |
President and CEO of TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities) |
Director of Prevention at Corporación Nuevos Rumbos, Bogota Colombia
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Clinical Psychologist, the founder, and director of CBT-Kenya based in Nairobi, East Africa
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Health Professions of South Africa registered clinical psychologist |
Director/Registrar at the Federal School of Occupational Therapy (FSOT), Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba, Lagos
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Team Leader, Technical Support Unit, National AIDS Control Organisation, Government of India
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Professor of Psychiatry, Child Study and Neuroscience at the Yale University School of Medicine |
Research Assistant, National Rehabilitation Center Abu Dhabi |
Director of the Colombo Plan office for Latin America and the Caribbean and external trainer for the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime in Vienna (UNODC) |
International Technology Transfer Center Director of Peru |
![]() Director of the Institute for Research and Development »Utrip« (UTRIP)
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State Senator in the Illinois General Assembly
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![]() Coordinator of the international relations and cooperation of the Villa Maraini Foundation |
President Emeritus, TASC INC; President, MMH & Associates; Chair, ISSUP; Secretary Treasurer, ICUDDR |
Prevention Worker, SEIRIOS Centres for the Prevention of Addictions and the Promotion of Psychosocial Health
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President of International Consortium of Universities on Drug Demand Reduction (ICUDDR) Professor of Clinical psychology, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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Registered psychologist and psychometrician, Philippines First working chairperson of the Professional Regulatory Board of Psychology of the Professional Regulation Commission |
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary, Canada Past Medical Director of the Calgary Health Region Addiction Centre and Program
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Founder and Chief Coordinator of the Vietnam Program for Internet & Society (VPIS),University of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
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![]() Implementation of training programs for the Greek National School of Judge Invited professional at the Criminal Law and Addictions Postgraduate Program of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Social Inclusion Postgraduate Program of the Democritus University of Thrace |
Quality and Credential Coordinator of Vietnam International Technology Transfer Center (V-ITTC) |
Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Voluntary) at University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the site director for the UCSD Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at the Veteran Affairs San Diego (VASD) Healthcare System |
Chairperson of the international Network of Early Career Addiction Medicine Professionals working in the area of Addiction Medicine (NECPAM) |
State Commander, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Akwa Ibom State |
MD Psychiatrist, Institute of Psychiatry of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine National Chapters Coordinator in Asian region, ISSUP |
![]() Pablo Antonio Carvacho Traverso Director of Research and Development of the Justice and Society Center of the Catholic University of Chile
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Chief Executive Officer of Planet Youth |
Regional Director for Spain and Latin America in Planet Youth ehf.
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Director, ISSUP Brazil |
Director of KETHEA ITHAKI
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President of the Multicultural Development Institute, Inc
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Psychologist and Psychotherapist, the Public Local Health Agency (ASL 2-Savona, Italy), Department of Mental health and addiction
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Associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University |
![]() Scientific Support Coordinator at the International Society of Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Professionals (ISSUP) Researcher at Vrije University Amsterdam in the Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology Department |
Director of Addiction treatment department in General Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Ministry of Health and Population in Egypt |
Medical doctor currently undergoing Psychiatry specialist training at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Professor Emeritus at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and a Research Professor at the Vermont Center for Behavior and Health at the University of Vermont |
Academic Director of the Drug Program of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Central University of Chile
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Emeritus Professor and Fulbright Scholar, Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, United States.
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry at National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi |
Professor of Psychiatry |
Operational Manager of Freemind and ISSUP Brazil |
![]() Dr. Samya Al Memari, DrPh, MPH, MQM, BSN Chair of the International Society of Addiction Professionals (ISSUP) UAE National Chapter Eastern Mediterranean Deputy Regional President of the World Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation (WAPR) |
![]() Dr. Shamil Wanigaratne D.Clin.Psych., FBPsS., FBABCP. Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Senior Advisor to H.E. Director General at the National Rehabilitation Centre, Abu Dhabi |
Friends Research Institute and UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Programs |
Chief Operating Officer for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) |
HIV-Addiction Technology Transfer Center at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City |
Programme Officer, Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) |
Distinguished Professorship in Psychology in Claremont Graduate University’s Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences |
Additional Professor of Psychiatry at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India |
Principal Magistrate at Shanzu Court in Mombasa, Kenya. |
Director of Supreme Training & Consultancy Malaysia |