Mr Alan Court is senior advisor to Mr Ray Chambers, World Health Organization (WHO) Ambassador for Global Strategy. Mr Court is former director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Programme Division and had previously been posted in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. As director of the UNICEF Programme Division, he led the division’s strategy development, program guidance and implementation processes and was responsible for ensuring that UNICEF’s programs were focused on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Prior to this, Mr Court served for five years as director of the UNICEF Supply Division in Copenhagen. He earned a master’s degree in Rural Social Development from the University of Reading School of Education in the United Kingdom.