1. Matshidiso Rebecca Natalie Moeti is a physician, public health specialist and medical administrator from Botswana who has been serving as Regional Director of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, headquartered in Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo, since 2015.
Matshidiso Moeti then joined UNAIDS, rising to the position of Team Leader of the Africa and Middle East Desk, based in Geneva, from 1997 until 1999.
Matshidiso Moeti served as the Regional Health Advisor for UNICEF's Regional Office for East and Southern Africa.
Matshidiso Moeti was appointed as Assistant Regional Director, serving in that capacity from 2008 until 2011.
Matshidiso Moeti served as the Director of Noncommunicable Diseases at the regional office.
Matshidiso Moeti was appointed as Regional Director of the WHO Regional Office for Africa on 27 January 2015, by the WHO Executive Board sitting at its 136th session in Geneva, Switzerland.
Matshidiso Moeti became the first woman to head the office.
Matshidiso Moeti assumed office on 1 February 2015, to serve a renewable five-year term.
Matshidiso Moeti replaced Luis Gomes Sambo of Angola, who served as the Director of AFRO from 2005 until 2015.
Matshidiso Moeti was reelected for a second term in 2019.