Anders Nordström
Anders Nordström | |
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Acting Director-General of the World Health Organization | |
In office 22 May 2006 – 8 November 2006 | |
Preceded by | Lee Jong-wook |
Succeeded by | Margaret Chan |
Personal details | |
Born | citation needed] | 9 March 1960 [
Nationality | Swedish |
Anders Nordström (born 9 March 1960[citation needed]) is a Swedish physician who served as Acting Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 22 May 2006 to 8 November 2006.
Career
Nordström trained as a physician at
In 2002, Nordström briefly served as the Interim Executive Director for the
Nordström became Assistant Director-General for General Management at WHO in July 2003 and, in May 2006, Acting Director-General on the death of
Nordström served as the Director General of SIDA from January 2008 to May 2010. In May 2010, after the effects of the Swedish aid-budget decline due to the financial crisis, he was requested to step down from his position because of the agency's financial difficulties.[3][4][5]
Later, in April 2012, Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson appointed Nordström as the declared "world's first Global Health Ambassador".[6] On behalf of the Swedish Government he has the formal title as Ambassador and leads a team to oversee and strategically advise the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on a substantial global health portfolio.
In April 2015, after a tenure as Sweden's Ambassador for Global Health, Nordström was appointed back to WHO as the organisation's country representative to Sierra Leone for two years.[1] In 2020, he was appointed to head the secretariat of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR), which is chaired by Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.[7] Since 2022, he has been a member of the Commission for Universal Health convened by Chatham House and co-chaired by Helen Clark and Jakaya Kikwete.[8]
Other activities
- Virchow Prize for Global Health, Member of the Council (since 2022)[9]
References
- ^ "Dr Anders Nordström becomes Acting Director-General of the World Health Organization." Geneva, WHO Press, 22 May 2006.
- ^ Lawrence K. Altman (9 November 2006), Hong Kong Doctor Nominated to Lead W.H.O. The New York Times.
- ^ "Sweden sacks aid agency chief in major overhaul." Archived 1 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Local: Sweden's News in English, 27 May 2010.
- ^ "There’s lack of political will in corruption fight – SACCORD." Archived 11 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine By Ernest Chanda, The Post Online, 2 June 2010.
- ^ Pamoja Consulting. "Top Bilateral Donors: A Primer" – 9. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ Inna Lazareva (19 October 2017), Motorbikes, trust and pepper soup: Ebola tips to tackle deadly diseases Reuters.
- ^ Jenny Lei Ravelo (4 September 2020), Here's what we know so far about the COVID-19 independent panel Devex.
- ^ Commission for Universal Health Chatham House.
- ^ Council Virchow Prize for Global Health.