Rabat - Former French foreign minister and current under secretary general of the UN Philippe Douste-Blazy announced his candidacy as director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) which opens its annual assembly on Monday in Geneva.
Rabat – Former French foreign minister and current under secretary general of the UN Philippe Douste-Blazy announced his candidacy as director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) which opens its annual assembly on Monday in Geneva.
In press statements, Douste-Blazy (aged 63) underlined his commitment to prevention, health crises management and governance. Douste-Blazy is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on innovative financing to reach the Millennium Development Goals.
In 2006, he founded, at a ministerial level, the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to Fund Development at the Paris Conference on Innovative Development Financing Mechanisms.
