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Candidates for Director-General can be proposed by Member States, then nominated by the executive board and appointed by the World Health Assembly. [5]The appointment process begins more than one year prior to the May vote, when the World Health Organization sends out a letter informing Member States that the nomination process has begun.
The Board shall meet at least twice a year and shall determine the place of each meeting." [13] This is invariably chosen (by consensus) to be Geneva. A current list of members on the executive board can be derived through consultation of the WHA #Annual Assemblies summaries which are posted below.
The executive board is composed of members technically qualified in health and gives effect to the decisions and policies of the World Health Assembly. In addition, the UN observer organizations International Committee of the Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have entered into "official relations ...
In the United States, the board of directors (elected by the shareholders) is often equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee (operating committee or executive council), composed of the CEO and their direct reports (other C-level officers, division/subsidiary heads).
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Tigrinya: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelled ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ; [1] [a] born 3 March 1965) [2] is an Ethiopian [2] public health official, researcher, [3] diplomat, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017.
A fifth seat at the board has been vacant for years and the departure of the three Democrats will leave the board with only one active member for now. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington ...
There was controversy surrounding this re-election because the WHO awarded contracts to executive board members prior to the vote by the executive board in January. [13] An audit was conducted that concluded in March and cleared Nakajima of misusing WHO's finances. [ 14 ]
Stacy Smith — an Intel board member who previously worked at the company for nearly 30 years, including as CFO for roughly a decade — was described by the former Intel manufacturing executive ...