Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General of the World Health Organization (since 2017)
The first African to lead the WHO — through the worst pandemic in a century.
The rise
A malaria researcher and former Ethiopian health and foreign minister, Tedros was elected in 2017 as the WHO's first African Director-General.
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