Health for All: 
The 11th WCCBT Congress

Keynote Speakers for CBT World Congress 2026

Lata McGinn, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Yeshiva University, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology | Co-Founder and Co-Director, Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants (CBC) | President, World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (WCCBT)

Richard Bryant, Ph.D., DSc
University of New South Wales

Dixon Chibanda M.D., MPH, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry & Global Mental Health at LSHTM, London | University of Zimbabwe, Harare

David M. Clark, DPhil
University of Oxford, UK

Kirsty A. Clark, Ph.D., MPH
Vanderbilt University | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society | Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies | Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Associate Director, Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy Lab

Professor Ornella Corazza, Ph.D.
University of Trento, Italy

Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D., AO
University of California, Los Angeles

Toshi A. Furukawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Kyoto University, Japan

Professor Gillian Haddock, MClinPsychol, Ph.D.
Profesor of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester, UK

Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno | President of the Institute for Better Health

Anita Jansen, Ph.D.
Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology at Maastricht University | Scientific Director of the New Science of Mental Disorders consortium, the Netherlands

John F. Kelly, Ph.D., ABPP
Recovery Research Institute | Massachusetts General Hospital | Harvard Medical School

Silvia Helena Koller, Ed.D.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, FURG, Brazil | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Brazil | North West University, South Africa 

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside

Mark van Ommeren, Ph.D.
World Health Organization

John Pachankis, Ph.D.
Yale University

Christine A. Padesky, Ph.D.
Distinguished Founding Fellow, Academy of Cognitive & Behavioral Therapies | www.padesky.com

Marta B. Rondon, M.D.. M.Sc., IDFAPA
Universidad San Martin de Porres and Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal, Lima, Peru

Jessica L. Schleider, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Medical Social Sciences, Pediatrics, & Psychology, Northwestern University

Roz Shafran Ph.D., FMedSci
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health | Emeritus Professor of Translational Psychology

Professor Louise Sharpe B.A. (Hons), MClinPsych, Ph.D.
School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia

J.D. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Dissemination and Implementation Science Core (DISC) | Utah Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Division of Health System Innovation and Research | Department of Population Health Sciences | Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah

Eric Stice, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Jianping Wang M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Vice Chair of Clinical and Counseling Psychology at Beijing Normal University | Vice-Chairman of the CBT Committee of the China Mental Health Association