Elhadj As Sy

Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); Aids, Tuberculosis & Malaria Activist

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Elhadj As Sy Biography

Elhadj As Sy is the Secretary General of the IFRC. He began this leadership role on 1 August, 2014 and is based at the IFRC secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mr. Sy has extensive experience in leadership roles in the humanitarian sector, having previously served at a senior level with UNICEF, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and other agencies for more than 25 years.

Before joining the IFRC ‐ the world’s largest humanitarian network ‐ Mr. Sy was UNICEF’s Director of Partnerships and Resource Development in New York. He has also served as UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa and Global Emergency Coordinator for the Horn of Africa.

From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Sy was Director, HIV/AIDS Practice with the United Nations Development Programme in New York. Before that, he worked with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as its Africa Regional Director and later as Director of Operational Partnerships and Country Support in Geneva. Mr. Sy has also held the position of UNAIDS Representative in New York and Director of the New York Liaison Office. From 1988 to 1997, he served as Director of Health and Development Programmes with Environment and Development Action in the Third World in Dakar, Senegal.

Mr. Sy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts and Human Sciences from the University of Dakar. He then pursued Master’s studies in Arts and Germanistik at the University of Graz, and graduated from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. He was also awarded a post graduate diploma in Education from the Ecole normale superieure in Dakar. He speaks English, French and German and is a national of Senegal.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 01/12/2024.

Elhadj As Sy Videos

  • Elhadj As Sy: Aid Fatigue in a Social Media World
    Elhadj As Sy, the honorable Secretary General of the International Federation of the Red Cross / Red Crescent Societies, speaks at the 2017 Global...
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  • Elhadj As Sy: People need us, they have arrived at camps traumatised
    (25 Oct 2017) The Secretary-General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Elhadj As Sy, visited a field hospital...

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