Chibuzo Okonta

Dr Chibuzo Okonta is a general medical practitioner trained in Nigeria, where he worked as a doctor before joining MSF in Katsina, northern Nigeria, during a measles outbreak response; he has been working in the humanitarian field since 2005. Chibuzo has worked for MSF in several West and Central African countries, including as an emergency coordinator in emergency responses in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Haiti, Iraq, Syria and Uganda. In 2014, he joined the emergency unit of MSF France in Paris as one of the programme managers. Chibuzo has extensive expertise in responding to complex humanitarian emergencies including nutritional crises, and refugees and displaced people following wars or a natural disaster. He is a cofounder of MSF in West and Central Africa (WACA). Chibuzo is very passionate about environmental health and mitigating issues due to climate change and global warming. As President of MSF WACA, he was co-opted on to the International Board in February 2021.