Dr Emilie van Deventer is the team leader of the Radiation Programme in the Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health at the World Health Organization. This programme covers the public health aspects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation safety.
Before joining WHO in 2000, she was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in Canada from 1992 to 2000, and was a visiting Professor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland (1998-99). She has a PhD in electromagnetics from the University of Michigan (USA) and a doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of San Marcos (Lima, Peru).
