Sanne Frost Helt is Senior Director for Policy, Programme and Partnerships at the World Diabetes Foundation. Sanne has more than 20 years' experience in international development cooperation and partnerships on a range of issues related to health, including reproductive, maternal and child health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and pandemic response. Her experience spans Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark, the UN system, and the private sector. Before joining the World Diabetes Foundation, Sanne was Denmark’s representative to the Board of the World Bank Group. Prior to that, she was Chief Advisor for Global Health at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark at which time she also served as co-Chair of the WHO/Global Coordinating Mechanism on NCDs Working Group on inclusion of NCDs in other programmatic areas.