[Perspectives] Elhadj As Sy: global health leader and advocate for gender justice

Elhadj As Sy is an internationally respected and highly accomplished global health leader and humanitarian aid expert. He is Chancellor of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), UK, and Chair of the Board of the Kofi Annan Foundation. Before he took up these roles, he held senior and leadership positions in several UN agencies and international non-governmental organisations. Despite his many achievements, As Sy has a modest style. “I'm given all kinds of titles of professor and doctors and all kinds.