Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected as WHO Director-General for a five-year term in May 2017. He is the first person from the WHO African Region to serve as WHO's chief technical and administrative officer. Immediately after taking office Dr Tedros outlined five key priorities for the Organization: universal health coverage; health emergencies; women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health; health impacts of climate and environmental change; and a transformed WHO. Dr Tedros believes that AMR is one of the greatest challenges of our time that has to be addressed urgently. Under Dr Tedros’ leadership a new Division on Antimicrobial Resistance was established at WHO. Together with the UN Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina Mohammed, he co-chaired the ad hoc Interagency Coordination Group on AMR. Prior to WHO, Dr Tedros served as Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012–2016 and as Minister of Health from 2005–2012.