About the Speaker
Sir George Alleyne, a native of Barbados, became director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB), Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) on February 1, 1995, and completed a second four-year term on January 31, 2003. In 2003, he was elected director emeritus of the PASB. From February 2003 until December 2010, he was the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. In October 2003, he was appointed Chancellor of the University of the West Indies. He currently holds an adjunct professorship at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.