Adriana Marquizo

Adriana Blanco Marquizo has led the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control since 2020. A medical doctor with a master’s degree in policies to prevent addictions in children and adolescents, she has worked in the Americas over the past two decades, including her home country of Uruguay. She previously worked at the Pan American Health Organization as a tobacco control regional advisor and later as chief of the Risk Factors and Nutrition Unit in the Department of Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health.