Tedros Adhanom
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ge'ez: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ; born 3 March 1965) is an Ethiopian politician, academic and public health authority. He has been Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2017. He served in his country's government as Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016.
Tedros was born in Asmara, Eritrea. He gained his Ph.D. degree in Community Health from the University of Nottingham in 2000.[1][2] He is married and has five children.[3]
Tedros Adhanom Media
Tedros with Houlin Zhao in 2017
Tedros with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in July 2018
Tedros with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili in September 2019
Tedros with Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin in October 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic
Tedros with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in April 2022
Tedros with WIPO's Daren Tang and WTO's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in 2023
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References
- ↑ "Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus". Harvard University. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Ethiopian wins top WHO job. BBC News. 23 May 2017. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-40010522. Retrieved 10 February 2020.