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Chair

H.E. Mia Amor Mottley

Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment, Minister of National Security and the Civil Service, BARBADOS

Biography

The Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, Q.C., M.P., became Barbados' eighth and first female Prime Minister on May 25, 2018. Ms. Mottley was elected to the Parliament of Barbados in September 1994 as part of the new Barbados Labour Party Government.

Prior to that, she served as one of two Opposition Senators between 1991 and 1994. One of the youngest persons ever to be assigned a ministerial portfolio, Ms. Mottley was appointed Minister of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture from 1994 to 2001. She later served as Attorney General and Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados from 2001 to 2008 and was the first female to hold that position.

Ms. Mottley is an Attorney-at-law with a degree from the London School of Economics, specialising in advocacy. She is also a Barrister of the Bar of England and Wales.

In 2002, she became a member of the Local Privy Council. She was also admitted to the Inner Bar, becoming the youngest ever Queens Counsel in Barbados.


 

 

Vice-chair

Mr Jakob Forssmed

Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health, SWEDEN

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Members

Mr Mohammed Mousa Alameeri

Assistant Undersecretary for the Food Diversity Sector, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Dr Ahmed Mohammed Obaid Al Saidi

Former Minister of Health, SULTANATE OF OMAN

Ms Beatrice Atim Odwong Anywar

Minister of State for Environment, UGANDA

Ms Anahit Avanesyan

Minister of Health, Republic of ARMENIA

Prof C.O. Onyebuchi Chukwu

Former Minister of Health, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, NIGERIA

Dr Guilherme Antônio da Costa Júnior

Federal Agricultural Auditor at the Secretariat of Trade and International Relations, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, BRAZIL

Dr Mekdes Daba

Minister of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of ETHIOPIA

Prof Dame Sally Davies

UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, UNITED KINGDOM

Dr Jamie Jonker

Science and Programme Coordination Committee Chair, International Dairy Federation, USA

Prof Dr Ernst Kuipers

Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, NETHERLANDS

Mr Fernando Lugris

Ambassador of the Oriental Republic of URUGUAY

Ms Ummy Mwalimu

Member of Parliament and former Minister of Health United Republic of TANZANIA

Ms Sunita Narain

Director-General, Centre for Science and Environment, INDIA

Dr Maria Panayiotou

Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Republic of CYPRUS

Mr Yasuhisa Shiozaki

Former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Member of the House of Representatives, JAPAN

Prof Lothar H. Wieler

Chair of the Digital Health Cluster, Hasso Plattner Institute and Prof of Digital Global Public Health, GERMANY

Ms Jennifer Zachary

Executive Vice President, General Counsel, MSD, Rahway, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Ex-Officio Members

Ms Inger Andersen

Under-Secretary-General, United Nations and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme

Dr QU Dongyu

Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General, World Health Organization

Dr Emmanuelle Soubeyran

Director General, World Organisation for Animal Health