John Guillebaud MA, FRCSEd, FRCOG, FFSRH(Hon), FCOG(SA)

John Guillebaud is Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at University College London (personal Chair since 1992, the world’s first in this specialty). He was born at Buye, Burundi, brought up in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya was a medical officer in the RS/RGS Xavantina-Cachimbo expedition to Mato Grosso in 1967-69 and has made regular training and support visits for healthcare professions in South America and Africa (Central and South).

He is author/co-author of more than 300 publications on environmental sustainability, reproductive health and population, contraception for women and for men, and of nine books that are available in 10 languages including Bulgarian, Malay, and Japanese. Recently updated editions are available of Contraception: Your Questions Answered, Contraception Today, the Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Medicine and Family Planning, and Contraception: a Casebook from Menarche to Menopause.