Ellen ‘t Hoen

Ellen ‘t Hoen is the Director of Medicines Law & Policy, a group of legal and policy experts offering advice to international organizations and governments. She is the founder and former executive director of the Medicines Patent Pool and a Global Health Law Fellow at the law faculty of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She has a master’s degree in law from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from the University of Groningen. She has published widely and is the author of several books. In 2017 she received the Prix Prescrire for her latest book “Private Patents and Public Health: Changing intellectual property rules for public health.” She was a member of the 2019 Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies. In 2020, she was appointed Officer of the Order of Oranje-Nassau, a royal award given in recognition of her work on access to medicines.