Ellen ‘t Hoen is a lawyer and public health advocate. She is the director of Medicines Law & Policy. From 1999 until 2009, she was the director of policy for Médecins sans Frontières’ Access Campaign. In 2009, she joined UNITAID to set up the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). She was the MPP’s first executive director until 2012. She has advised governments, NGOs, and international organisations. She has published widely on medicines law and policy issues. Her book “Private Patents and Public Health: Changing intellectual property rules for public health” was awarded the Prix Prescrire in 2017 for being a “major reference work on access to medicines”. Between 2005 and 2021, Managing Intellectual Property listed her 5 times among the 50 most influential people in intellectual property. In 2020, she was appointed Officer of the Order of Oranje-Nassau for her work on access to affordable medicines. She has a Master of Laws from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from the University of Groningen.