Speakers
Dr. Christos Christou
International President, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Dr Christos Christou is the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières since 2019. He joined MSF in 2002, working with migrants and refugees in Greece, before working as a doctor in an HIV/AIDS project in Zambia in 2004 and 2005. From 2013 he undertook MSF assignments in several conflict zones and insecure contexts, including South Sudan, Iraq, and Cameroon, working as an emergency and trauma surgeon.
Dr Christou graduated from Aristotle University’s medical school in Thessaloniki, and has a PhD in Surgery from the Kapodestrian University of Athens. He holds a Masters in International Health - Health Crisis Management from the University of Athens and is a member of its faculty. Dr Christou later specialised in general and emergency surgery in the Surgical and Transplant Unit of Evangelismos Hospital.
In 2013 he moved to London, working as a Senior Clinical Fellow in Colorectal surgery at King’s College Hospital, and in 2018 became Consultant of Colorectal and Emergency Surgery at North Middlesex University Hospital. In 2018 he was awarded Fellow of the European Board of Surgery in Coloproctology.
