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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Director-General, World Health Organization

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is Director-General of World Health Organization, according to the body's own published record.

Posts held

• Director-General, World Health Organization, First elected May 2017; second term from 16 August 2022, ending 15 August 2027. Part of level 8: The UN and global treaty bodies.
  Source: who.int, read 20 October 2026.

Where Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sits in the ladder of power

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