Nine new international leaders join the World Dementia Council. Members were appointed from Asia, Oceania, Europe, Africa and the Americas. The new council members are drawn from different disciplines in the dementia field. 

Suvarna Alladi is Professor of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India. Dr Alladi was a Commonwealth research fellow in cognitive and behavioural neurology at Cambridge UK. She established one of the first memory clinics in India that provided multi-disciplinary care to more than 3000 patients with dementia. Her areas of interest are Frontotemporal dementia, atypical Alzheimer’s disease and vascular cognitive impairment.

Johannes Streffer (MD) is Senior Vice President and Head of Global Clinical Development of Lundbeck and visiting professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp. Johannes is neurologist and psychiatrist; he received is training from the University of Tubingen/ Germany, including his residency in Neurology, before he joined the department of Psychiatry Research at University of Zurich.

Ishtar Govia is an international advisor and award-winning social science researcher with expertise in brain health and mental health across the lifespan. As a highly experienced senior academic, Dr. Govia has held posts at the University of the West Indies, University College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Michigan. Her leadership and consulting prioritizes co-development with cross-sectoral government and charitable entities for feasibility and scaling up efforts.