Iris Tatjana Graef-Calliess (MD, psychiatrist, MBA) is medical director of the Wunstorf Psychiatric Hospital, Hannover Region Clinics (KRH), academic training hospital of Hannover Medical School; head of the department for general psychiatry and psychotherapy at Wunstorf Psychiatric Hospital, Hannover region clinics (KRH) and of the research group for Social and Transcultural Psychiatry & Psychotherapy, Dept. of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Hannover Medical School, Han-nover/Germany. Being brought up bilingually in German and Polish in a cosmopolitan environment she holds a BA in Slavic languages, philosophy and Eastern European history, was internationally trained during her medical studies and her specialist’s training (Germany, USA, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Israel) and has received training in psychodynamic as well as systemic psychotherapy and intercultural mediation. She was a founding member and chair of the networks and committees for young profes-sionals in the German Psychiatric Association (DGPPN) and in the European Psychiatric Association (EPA). Her clinical and research interests include social psychiatry, unmet needs of minority pop-ulations including access to health care and improvement of health literacy, health care provision including innovative treatment models, global mental health, transcultural psy-chiatry and intercultural psychotherapy, mental health care of immigrants and refugees, and diversity management. Her postdoctoral studies focused on intercultural psychother-apy developing a culture dynamic model for bicultural identity. She has extensive clinical practice in the field of migration and mental health including mental health care of asylum seekers and refugees. She has been working with a non-governmental organization for traumatized refugees for many years and founded within that frame a state funded pilot project, a stepped care program for need adapted psychi-atric-psychotherapeutic treatment of traumatized refugees She is chair of the European Psychiatric Association’s section Cultural Psychiatry (DGPPN), co-chair of the German Psychiatric Association’s section Intercultural Psychiatry, Psycho-therapy and Migration (DGPPN), and member of European Psychiatric Association’s task force on mental health of refugees. She is a member of the German Government’s expert task force on immigration & public health of the national representative for migration, refugees and integration, of the World Association for Cultural Psychiatry (WACP), and of World Psychiatric Association’s section Transcultural Psychiatry (WPA). She has conducted several studies and research projects on mental health care focusing on need adapted treatment, transcultural differential symptomatology, acculturation and identity.