Dr Sania Nishtar is a Pakistani cardiologist, author and activist who is the current Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan and Chairperson, Benazir Income Support Programme. She also co-chairs WHO’s High-Level Commission on Non-communicable diseases along with the Presidents of Uruguay, Finland and Sri Lanka. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the future of healthcare and co-chairs the U.S National Academy of Sciences Global Study on the Quality of Healthcare in low and middle-income countries. In addition, she also chairs the United Nations International Institute for Global Health’s International Advisory Board and a member of the International Advisory Board on Global Health of the German Federal Government.