Executive Council

Presidency

Professor David Gordon

President

Professor Ducksun Ahn

Vice-President

Professor Stefan Lindgren

Past President

Presidents of the six Regional Associations

Professor Trevor Gibbs

AMEE

Dr Ahmed Al Rumayyan

AMEEMR

Professor Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa

AMSA

Professor Ricardo León-Bórquez

PAFAMS

Associate Professor Titi Savitri

SEARAME

Dr Dujeepa Samarasekera

WPAME

Founding Members

Dr Giorgio Cometto

WHO

Dr Otmar Kloiber

WMA

Executive Members

Mădălina Elena Mandache

IFMSA

Dr Yassen Tcholakov

JDN

Professor William W Pinsky

ECFMG

Special Advisers

Professor Janet Grant

Special Adviser to the President

Professor Hans Karle

President Emeritus and lifetime Special Adviser

Mark Dexter

Senior Policy Adviser

Professor Samar A. Ahmed

Special Adviser

Liz Butler

Special Adviser, Finance and Risk

Secretariat

Anne-Marie Delage

Personal Assistant to the President

Barbora Hrabalová

Head of External Relations

Romana Kohnová

Executive Assistant to the World Federation for Medical Education office

Dr Mokshada Sharma

Executive Assistant, World Directory of Medical Schools

Senior Advisers Emeriti

Leif Christensen

Dr Jørgen Nystrup

Advisers

Advisers support the programmes of WFME in a number of different areas

Professor Sam Leinster

Professor Tewfik Nawar

Dr Farida Nurmanbetova

Dr Toshimasa Yoshioka

Recognition Committee

Independent decision-making committee for the WFME Recognition of Accreditation Programme

Professor Luis Sambo

Africa

Dr Angel Centeno

Americas

Professor Zeinelabdin A Karrar

Eastern Mediterranean

Professor Stefan Lindgren

Europe

Professor Usman Chatib Warsa

South East Asia

Professor Alfaretta Reyes

Western Pacific

Assessors

Assessors work with WFME mainly in the Recognition of Accreditation Programme

Professor Mitra Amini

Djona Avocksouma

Nadia Badrawi

Dr Mariam Baghdady

Professor Elena I. Barragán

Dr Barbara Barzansky

Dr John (Jack) R. Boulet

Professor Ian Bowmer

Dr Aikaterini Dima

Julie Drendall

Professor Michael Field

Dr María del Carmen García

Dr Isadora Gutekunst

Professor Hossam Hamdy

Dr Carol Hodgson

Professor P T Jayawickramarajah

Dr Anne Keane

Professor Namita Kumar

Professor Peih-ying Lu

Professor Ismail I. Matalka

Alan Merritt

Professor Jadwiga Mirecka

Dr Geneviève Moineau

Professor André-Jacques Neusy

Professor Lois Nora

Dr Farida Nurmanbetova

Professor Ivana Oborná

Dr Sara Osman

Tamar Sanikidze

Juliana Simon

Agostinho Moreira de Sousa

Dr Salma Soussi

Professor David Taylor

Sarah Vaughan

Professor Nu Viet Vu

Theanne Walters

Michèle Wera

Associates

Associates of WFME are appointed for their expertise in specific tasks

Roderic Dennett

Language adviser

Spanish

Prof Senthil Kumar Rajasekaran

Shiyao Yuan

Language adviser

Chinese