Composed of NCDA members, the NCD Alliance General Assembly (GA) is the organisation's supreme decision-making body. The next meeting will take place in May 2025.

The GA meets every two years, and elects NCDA's President and Board of Directors. It can amend the constitution and receives and adopts the NCDA's reports and financial accounts. 

There are four founding members of the NCDA: International Diabetes Federation, World Heart Federation, Union for International Cancer Control and The Union. Founding members can vote at the General Assembly and can nominate individuals for election as NCDA President and Board members. In addition, founding members are entitled to a permanent seat on the Board.

Full NCDA members are entitled to attend and vote at the GA and can nominate individuals for President and Board. Associate members can attend the GA as observers (but not vote) and can nominate individuals for the Board (not for President).

The first NCDA General Assembly was held on 22 May 2017, in Geneva. 

Board of Directors

The President and NCDA Board of Directors provide governance, leadership and strategic direction to NCDA and all its activities, steering the growth and safeguarding the reputation and success of the organisation.

The Board is composed of 14 voting members, including the President who assumes the Chair of the Board of Directors and the President-Elect who is an ex-officio member of the Board for two years preceding his or her term as President.

Current Board of Directors (2023-2025 term)

The Board of Directors, elected in May 2023 by the General Assembly, will serve until May 2025.

• Monika Arora, NCDA President, Executive Director of HRIDAY;
• Leslie Rae Ferat, NCDA President-Elect, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control;
• 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 at NCD Child;
• Ishu Kataria, Senior Public Health Researcher, Center for Global NCDs, RTI International;
• Guy Marks, President of the The International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union);
• Eva Nijenga, Chair at NCD Alliance Kenya;
• Bo Norrving, Past President of the World Stroke Organization;
• Kaushik Ramaiya, Honorary General Secretary of the Tanzania NCD Alliance;
• Peter Schwarz, IDF President-Elect and Head of the Division of Prevention and Care of Diabetes at Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus;
• Saunthari Somasundaram, Chairperson at NCD Malaysia and President of the National Cancer Society of Malaysia;
• Laura Tucker-Longsworth, Board Member, Healthy Caribbean Coalition; President, Belize Cancer Society;
• Liesl Zuhlke, Board Member at World Heart Federation;

View the 2023-2025 Board of Directors