Chikwe Ihekweazu

Chikwe Ihekweazu is assistant director-general at the World Health Organization for surveillance and health emergency intelligence and leads the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. He was the first director-general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, from 2016 to 2021. He was previously interim director of the West Africa Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control, and has held senior public health and leadership positions, including in the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases, the United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute.