Mukesh Kapila | |
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| Born | 1955 (age 68–69) |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | Oxford University (M.D.) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (post-grad) |
| Notable work | Against a Tide of Evil (2013 memoir) |
| Website | www |
Mukesh Kapila M.D. CBE (born 1955)[1] is an author, medical doctor, professor, and a senior humanitarian.
He is a specialist in crisis and conflict management, humanitarian affairs, post-conflict and development, and HIV/AIDS. He has worked for the UK National Health Service, the British government and the United Nations (UN). He witnessed genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Darfur, the latter while being the head of the United Nations in Sudan. He was unceremoniously fired, after becoming a whistleblower regarding UN inaction in Darfur.[2]
Kapila is the author of two books about genocide: Against a Tide of Evil (2013) and 'Stranger to Kindness (2019). He currently works as a professor of global health and humanitarian affairs at the University of Manchester, and is a Special Representative of the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity.[2]
- ^ Group, British Medical Journal Publishing (27 February 2019). "Mukesh Kapila: The international humanitarian". BMJ. 364: l649. doi:10.1136/bmj.l649. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 30814068. S2CID 73508021.
{{cite journal}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ a b "Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Dr Mukesh Kapila CBE". Retrieved 22 January 2022.