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17 May 2023 Geneva (Switzerland) – Today, at the NCD Alliance (NCDA) virtual General Assembly, the President-Elect and Board of Directors were elected for the 2023-2025 term. The NCDA General Assembly is held every two years, convening NCDA’s 402 members as the supreme governing body of NCDA.  

The NCD Alliance Board for the 2023-2025 period is as follows:

• Dr Monika Arora, NCDA President, Executive Director of HRIDAY, 
• Leslie Rae Ferat, NCDA President-Elect, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (GATC, formerly Framework Convention Alliance) 
• Pubudu Amarajith Sumanasekara, Executive Director and President, NCD Alliance Lanka, Sri Lanka; Consultant for RESET Alcohol Initiative, Vital Strategies
• Beatriz Champagne, Executive Director, Coalition for Americas' Health/Coalición Latinoamérica Saludable (CLAS)
• Marie Hauerslev, Past-Chair, NCD Child
• Ishu Kataria, Senior Public Health Researcher, Center for Global NCDs, RTI International
• Guy Marks, President and Executive Director, The International Union Against TB and Lung Disease 
• Eva Njenga, Founder Director, NCD Alliance Kenya (NCDAK); Consultant Physician/Endocrinologist, DIAMED Centre, Kenya Diabetes Study Group 
• Bo Norrving, Senior Professor in Neurology, Lund University and Past President and Past-President, World Stroke Organization (WSO) 
• Kaushik L Ramaiya, Honorable Secretary and CEO, Tanzania NCD Alliance (TANCDA)
• Peter Schwarz, President-Elect, International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and Head of the Division of Prevention and Care of Diabetes at Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus 
• Saunthari Somasundaram, Former Union for International Cancer Control Board Member and President and Medical Director, The National Cancer Society of Malaysia  
• Laura Tucker-Longsworth, Board Member, Healthy Caribbean Coalition; President, Belize Cancer Society
• Liesl Zühlke, World Heart Federation Board Member and Vice President, South African Medical Research Council.

NCDA President Dr Arora said: “I am committed to strengthening NCDA’s global position as a convener of NCD civil society, a thought leader in NCDs, and promoting the meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs. As the NCD community looks towards the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs in 2025, the next two years will be especially critical in shaping the NCD agenda and accelerating progress towards a world that puts health first and leaves no one behind. We, the NCD movement, have the solutions to meet global NCD targets and I look forward to maximising this important opportunity to drive positive change for people living with NCDs around the world.” 

Outgoing NCDA President Ryel said: “I am incredibly honoured to have served as the NCDA President over the past two years. It has been a privilege to work alongside the Board, our diverse membership, and the NCDA team to drive positive change for people living with NCDs. The NCD Alliance is such a unique organisation, and I believe over the last two years we have advanced the NCD response, strengthened the NCD community, and made a real impact. I am particularly proud that we have set the foundations for the next Global NCDA Forum in Rwanda in October 2024, and to have acheieved WHO official relations. I have every confidence Monika and the new Board will continue to build upon our successes and further solidify NCDA as a powerful voice for civil society in the NCD space."