Eric Fleutelot is the Technical Director of the major pandemics division of Expertise France’s Health Department. In this capacity, he coordinates the 5% AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis Initiative.
He was previously Regional Advisor on Global Health in Southeast Asia, based at the French Embassy in Bangkok. For the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, he supervised and monitored French investments in health in 10 South-East Asian countries, also liaising with scientific research, public health decision-makers and various French operators.
Until 2014, he was also Deputy Managing Director of Sidaction, where he contributed to the development of community programs for access to care and treatment mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Eric Fleutelot has contributed to the development of innovative programmes, such as one for drug users in Nepal, in partnership with Nava Kiran Plus. He is also part of the team that set up the largest orphan support programme in Burundi, a country with almost 2000 children orphaned by AIDS.
Eric Fleutelot was made Knight of the National Order of Merit in 2007.