Professor Dilip Jeste, M.D.

President- Elect

Director, Global Research Network on Social Determinants of Mental Health

Former Senior Associate Dean of Healthy Aging and Senior Care, and

Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences,

University of California San Diego

Past President, American Psychiatric Association

Editor-in-Chief, International Psychogeriatrics

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of the Philippines

Past President, Philippine Psychiatric Association

Chairperson, Philippines Regional Branch of the World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry

Consultant, Institute of Neurosciences,

St. Luke’s Medical Center Quezon City, Philippines

Dr. Goran Mijaljica is a Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, and an Adjunct Consultant Psychiatrist at the Transcultural Centre Stockholm, Sweden. His clinical and academic interests include psychotraumatology, transcultural psychiatry, psychotherapy, refugee mental health, and LGBTQ+ psychiatry.

He has extensive experience in trauma-focused care and has trained mental health professionals in Sweden and Norway. Dr. Mijaljica has published and lectured internationally on complex trauma, refugee psychiatry, and culturally sensitive mental healthcare. He serves as Secretary General of the World Federation for Psychotherapy (WFP) and Chair of the World Psychiatric Association’s Transcultural Psychiatry Section (WPA-TPS). He has also served on the World Health Organization Ethics Review Committee.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University

Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Universitas Indonesia

Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, National University of Malaysia

Vising Professor of Psychiatry, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

Editor-in-Chief, Psychodynamic Psychiatry

President, Action for Mental Health

Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes (AMH) 
Past President of WPA