Dr. Naqib Safi is an independent Public Health and Emergency Management expert, currently Adjunct Professor of Public Health 1 in MEZCOPH and a director of ERADA 2, who has worked as the Senior Emergency Coordinator in the Emergency Response Team, UNICEF NYHQ. He served as the UNICEF Team Leader of Hurricane Dorian Response, the Bahamas, prior to which as the Chief of UNICEF Office in Aden, South Yemen; Senior Emergency Advisor Libya; Chief of Field Office, a.i. Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh; and Regional Emergency Adviser a.i. South Asia Regional Office, Kathmandu, Nepal. In addition, he provided support to Hurricane Harvey response in Houston, Texas, where he guided the planning for a child focussed response of UNICEF and partners; Naqib Safi also functioned as Cholera Responses Coordinator in Yemen; Team Leader of the USD 200 Million grant of the World Bank to Yemen Emergency Cash Transfer; Deputy Representative, a.i. in Nigeria and Syria; the Crisis Cell Coordinator in Geneva, supporting the Special Coordinator for Refugees and Migrants Crisis in Europe. During the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, he served as the Senior Emergency Coordinator for Ebola Response in Liberia; and in the north-eastern part of Jordan to the displaced population on the border of Syria. Dr Safi joined UNICEF as Health Specialist in Sudan in 2005, afterwards he has worked as Chief of Field Office West Darfur; Deputy Representative Kingdom of Lesotho, and Representative a.i. in Lesotho. Prior to joining UNICEF, Dr. Safi, an Afghan national, held various positions including Senior Advisor to the Minister of Health; National Programme Manager of HIV/AIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; Director General, Primary Health Care/Preventive Medicine, MoPH, Kabul, Afghanistan; Director, Provincial Public Health, Parwan Province, MoPH; Director Avicenna Infectious Diseases Teaching Hospital; and Director Maiwand Teaching Hospital, Afghanistan. He holds a Masters of Community Health MCommH) from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK; and Medical Degree MD) Avicenna Medical Institute, Kabul University, Afghanistan. In addition, he also holds a Certificate of Leadershi“Leading with Purpose” from Berkeley Haas School of Business, University of California; a Certificate in Leadershifrom INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France; a Diploma in Business Administration DBA) from Edinburgh Business School; a Post-Graduate Diploma in HIV Management PDM) from the African Centre for HIV Management, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.