Dr George Alleyne

Sir George Alleyne MD, FRCP, is Director Emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI). He served two four-year terms from 1995 to 2002 in the position of Director of the Pan American Health Organization/Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). From 2003 to 2017 was Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and held an adjunct professorship in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

From 2003 through 2010 he served as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean region. In 2017 he was named to the WHO Director-General’s High-level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases; the prevention and control of which is the focus of his current work and multiple international engagements.

A native of Barbados, Sir George studied medicine at UWI and graduated as the gold medallist in 1957. He was made a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom of Great Britain, in 1990 for his services to Medicine, and in 2001 was awarded the Order of the Caribbean Community, the highest honour that can be conferred on a Caribbean national.