John E. Lange

John E. Lange (born 1948) was the "United States Avian Influenza and Pandemic Ambassador".

Education In 1975 he graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School and was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin (and to the New York bar in 1979). He is a "distinguished graduate" of the National War College of National Defense University (1996). He and his wife have one daughter, who grew up in Togo, Switzerland, Tanzania, Botswana, and Northern Virginia and who received the FSYF's Una Chapman Cox Award for Domestic Community Service in 2005.

United Nations Foundation

Ambassador John E. Lange (Ret.) serves as the United Nations Foundation’s Senior Fellow for Global Health Diplomacy and as the primary focal point for the UN foundation's global health diplomacy activities. A pioneer in the field of global health diplomacy and a leader in pandemic preparedness and response, he has held leadership positions in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the Measles & Rubella Initiative.