Jacqueline Dubow is an MDS patient. From 2018 to 2021, she was the Vice President of a non-profit, «Connaître et Combattre les Myélodisplasies» (CCM), the sole MDS patient association in France. She was also a member of the MDS Alliance (MDSA) steering Committee. Since April 2022, she is the Chair of the MDSA. The MDSA is an international umbrella regrouping 42 MDS patients associations worldwide. Jacqueline is also a representative within the European Patient Advocacy Groups (ePAGs) that brings together 300+ patient representatives from 28 European countries. The ePAGs represent the patient voice in the European Reference Networks (ERNs). For 40 years, Jacqueline worked in International Developmen. She held senior position with the World Bank Group in Washington, DC. She has advised governments and companies on both operational and strategic matters, principally in the health, education, new technologies and transport sectors Prior working at the World Bank, she designed HIV/AIDS prevention communication strategies in Africa for the World Health Organization and managed a worldwide HIV/AIDS communication and behavioral change program for Family Health International, a U.S. non-profit organization.