Prof. Paul Lalvani is a former UN diplomat and the founder and Executive Director of The Empower Group a global institutional and human resources capacity building organisation that is working in more than 40+ countries and has supported more than a half a million professionals through digital solutions. 

Paul Lalvani has over 25 years of experience and has worked in developed and developing countries with health and humanitarian organizations, including The Global Fund and WHO. He has advised board members, ministers of health and heads of state on strategy, vision and impact. Besides the shiny boardrooms, he has spent several years on the dusty roads and last-mile clinics of Kabul, Port Moresby, Sokoto and Sana’a. Some of the organizations that Paul has supported while at Empower include: Ministries of Health of more than 30 countries, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, President Kufuor’s Foundation in Ghana, The Global Fund, George Soros’ Open Society Institute, various UN agencies (WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS), Roll Back Malaria Partnership, The Global Fund, Asia Pacific Leaders’ Malaria Alliance, and others.