Robert van Voren (1959) is Chief Executive of the international foundation ‘Human Rights in Mental Health-FGIP’, an international foundation for mental health reform. He is also Executive Director of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development and Professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Since 2000 he lives in Lithuania, and shuttles regularly to Ukraine, his main country of operation. Since the full-scale invasion he travels there on a monthly basis developing and implementing projects to support the country to deal with the psychological consequences of the war for both miliutary and civilians.

In the 1980s Robert van Voren coordinated international campaigns against the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. Starting in 1990-1991, Van Voren and his foundation developed an extenmsive program to support mental health reformers in the (former) USSR to humanize mental health care. The organization gradually developed into what is now the Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry.

Robert van Voren is Honorary Fellow of the British Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association, Knight of Orange Nassau (NL) and of Duke Gediminas (LT) was awarded the Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health.