Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim is an emergency medicine doctor and international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Javid first joined MSF in 2009 as an emergency doctor in Iraq and went on to work with MSF in various medical and coordination roles in Haiti, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria, Chad, Ukraine, UK, in Mediterranean search and rescue, and in Sierra Leone during the West Africa Ebola epidemic. His most recent medical work with MSF has been in Palestine and Sudan. Javid served on the board of MSF UK from May 2015 and was appointed its president in 2017, a role he held until 2021. Outside of medical roles and his time with MSF, he is also an experienced television presenter, having been nominated for both Emmy and BAFTA awards for his work on science documentary and health entertainment series which have appeared on Netflix, BBC, HBO, Channel 4, and Al Jazeera English.