Naqib Safi, MD, MCommH, MBA, is a global health leader with more than three decades of operational and governance experience across eighteen countries. He has worked with UNICEF - including at its global headquarters in New York - the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, health ministry and primary health network in Australia, the University of Arizona, and a range of United Nations and non-governmental settings. He has coordinated dozens of agencies across active conflict zones and led emergency operations including the Ebola response in Liberia, the cholera response in Yemen, refugee crisis coordination from Geneva to Cox's Bazaar of Bangladesh, and the responses to Hurricanes Harvey and Dorian. He has also helped build national systems intended to outlast any single leader, among them Afghanistan's primary health care reforms and its first national HIV/AIDS control program. Alongside this operational work he has designed and taught graduate leadership courses, including at the University of Arizona, bringing field-tested leadership to the next generation of practitioners.