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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Tigrinya: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelled ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ; [1] [a] born 3 March 1965) [2] is an Ethiopian [2] public health official, researcher, [3] diplomat, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017.
Audrey Azoulay (French pronunciation: [o.dʁɛ a.zu.lɛ]; born 4 August 1972) is a French-Moroccan civil servant and politician who has served as the 11th Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) since 2017, becoming the second female leader of the organization.
The Biden-Harris Administration is pleased to express its strong support for the candidacy of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the next Director General of the WTO." [59] Okonjo-Iweala was unanimously appointed as the next Director-General on 15 February. [60] She began her career as Director General of the WTO on 1 March 2021. [61]
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who lived through war as a child and whose own children hid in a bunker during bombardments in Ethiopia's 1998-2000 border war with Eritrea, became ...
The current director-general is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was appointed on 1 July 2017, [2] and re-appointed on 24 May 2022. [3] The Director-General also leads the World Health Organization Secretariat and is also the ex-officio Secretary of the World Health Assembly , the World Health Organization Executive Board, and of all commissions ...
In August 2024, Benitez was appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the director general of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), succeeding Suharto Mangudadatu. His appointment was seen as a significant move, given his strong background in education, including his service as a commissioner for the Second ...
Tahir Mamman SAN OON (born 7 July 1954) is a Nigerian lawyer, professor and academic who is a current minister of education of Nigeria. He was the director-general of the Nigerian Law School from 2005 to 2013. He was a one time vice chancellor of Baze University, Abuja and member governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC ...
In August 2019, Governor Ned Lamont appointed Cardona as commissioner of education; Cardona was the first Latino to hold the position. [12] [11] During his tenure, Cardona helped oversee state schools' response to the COVID-19 pandemic, where he expressed concerns over the long-term mental health impacts of remote education on students. [8]