Mohamed Javid Abdelmoneim is a Sudanese-Iranian emergency medicine doctor, with extensive experience in both the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and with MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières (Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1999.) 

Born in Cambridge, UK, Abdelmoneim graduated with a degree in medicine from University College London. He holds a diploma from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He joined MSF in September 2009 as an emergency doctor in Basra, Iraq. Since then, Abdelmoneim has worked in medical and programme coordination roles in Haiti, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria, Chad, Ukraine, UK, in Mediterranean search and rescue, and in Sierra Leone during the West Africa Ebola epidemic. 

His most recent roles with MSF have been as medical team leader in Gaza, Palestine, and as medical team leader in Omdurman, Sudan, until February 2025. Abdelmoneim served on the board of MSF UK from May 2015 and was appointed its president in 2017, a role he held until 2021. Outside of medical roles and his time with MSF, he is also an experienced television presenter, having been nominated for both Emmy and BAFTA awards for his work on science documentary and health entertainment series which have appeared on Netflix, BBC, HBO, Channel 4, and Al Jazeera English.  

Abdelmoneim was elected as International President for a three-year term by MSF’s International General Assembly, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 27 June 2025. He took up his role on 3 September 2025.