
Ambassadors
Dr. Jemilah Mahmood
Professor and Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University; Fmr. Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health
Healthcare
Dr. Mahmood is Professor and Director at Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University and has served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health since March 2020, and as Under Secretary General for Partnerships in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since January 2016. Before joining the IFRC, she served as Chief of the Secretariat of the World Humanitarian Summit at the United Nations in New York and Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch at UNFPA in 2011. She has also served as President of the Malaysian Medical Relief Society (Mercy Malaysia) from its foundation in June 1999 to a decade later in 2009. In 2008, she was one of the 16 members appointed by Ban Ki-moon, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations to Advisory Group of the Central Emergency Response Fund.
