Mr Benjamin William
Secretary General / CEO
Singapore Red Cross

Mr Benjamin William has been the Secretary General of the Singapore Red Cross Society with effect from 1 March 2012.
Mr William joined the Foreign Service in October 1981 and served in the Regional and Economics Department and subsequently as the Country Officer for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from 1986 to 1988. Between 1988 and 1993, he first served as First Secretary in the Singapore High Commission in Bandar Seri Begawan and later as First Secretary in the Singapore Embassy in Manila.

On his return to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Headquarters, Mr William was assigned to the Management and Personnel Directorate and subsequently served as its Deputy Director. Between 1995 and 1997, he served as Deputy Director-General in the ASEAN Directorate. He was then appointed Deputy Chief of Mission in the Singapore Embassy in Washington where he served from 1997 to 2000. On his return to Ministry HQ, he was appointed Senior Deputy Director covering North America and Europe, from 2000 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2004, Mr William was Director-General for ASEAN Singapore. He then served Director of Consular Directorate from February 2004 to August 2007.

In October 2007, he was appointed Singapore's Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic and served in Vientiane, Lao PDR from October 2007 to January 2011. Mr William was awarded the Friendship Cross by the Lao Government in January 2011 for his efforts in promoting Lao-Singapore relations.

On his return to Singapore, Mr William joined the Singapore Red Cross in April 2011 as Director/Special Duties, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Secretary General/Administration. In March 2012 he was appointed Secretary General of the Singapore Red Cross. Besides providing humanitarian services in Singapore, especially targeted at the disabled, the elderly and the disadvantaged, SRC also responds to humanitarian crises abroad. Mr William has provided leadership for Singapore Red Cross humanitarian responses in Japan, China, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Vanuatu, and Nepal.

Dr. Srihari Cattamanchi
Mbbs, Md (A&Em), Mph

Dr Srihari Cattamanchi has been serving in disasters, conflicts, complex humanitarian crisis and directly as a clinician. He is an emergency physician and a public health professional currently working with International Committee of the Red Cross as an Emergency Room (Specialist) Doctor in Beirut, Lebanon.

At BIDMC Harvard, Dr Cattamanchi teaches and is the Director of Humanitarian Disaster Operations at BIDMC Fellowship in Disaster Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, India.

Dr Cattamanchi is born and raised in India. During his career, he has dedicated his time to serve in Emergency Medicine, Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Assistance, Clinical Research, and Public Health.

For13 years, Dr Cattamanchi contributed towards the development of Emergency Medicine, Community First Responders, Disaster Medicine, and pre-hospital care in India. Besides, he also directed disaster relief at Port-au-Prince and Grand Goave in Haiti; Tacloban in the Philippines; Jiri, Dolakha district in Nepal; Gaza, Gaza Strip in ILOT; and currently in Beirut, Lebanon during a humanitarian crisis and armed conflicts.

David A. Bradt
MD, MPH, FACEP, FACEM, FAFPHM, DTM&H

David Bradt is a disaster epidemiologist trained in emergency medicine and public health. He has earned fellowships from five medical specialty societies across the US, UK, and Australia as well as cross-trained in disaster management through the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the US Agency for International Development’s Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance. His professional interest is disaster health services leading to disaster field experience in 27 countries and territories. Among his field assignments, he served as emergency physician in the Mujahideen-Afghan Surgical Hospital casualty receiving station at the Afghan-Pakistan border during the Afghan-Soviet war, International Federation of Red Cross medical coordinator in Zaire during the Rwandan genocide, International Rescue Committee physician in Macedonia and Albania during the Kosovo ethnic cleansing, WHO medical coordinator in Indonesia after the Indian Ocean tsunami, WHO emergency coordinator in Tunisia during the Libyan civil war, WHO senior public health advisor in South Sudan during its civil war, USAID\OFDA senior field officer in Sudan during the Darfur genocide, USAID\OFDA program officer in Nigeria during the Boko Haram insurgency, USAID\OFDA regional advisor in southern Africa during the El Nino drought, and American Red Cross medical consultant at US disasters including World Trade Center terrorism.

Dr. Bradt is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center resident scholar, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow, and a Fulbright specialist in public/global health. He holds faculty appointments in the US at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He consults on disaster health issues for governmental, non-governmental, Red Cross, and UN organizations. He has served as senior health advisor to WHO Department of Emergency Risk Management, surge health advisor to USAID\OFDA, and medical advisor to American Red Cross National Headquarters. He has served on the editorial boards of two NLM-indexed biomedical journals and is lead author of Missioncraft in Disaster Relief—the first reference works developed for disaster medical coordinators and other health professionals in international disaster relief operations. His awards include the Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine Outstanding Faculty Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Society of Alumni Award for Public Health Practice, American Red Cross National Headquarters Volunteer Award in Disaster Services, USAID Meritorious Group Award to the Darfur Disaster Assistance Response Team, WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia Certificate of Appreciation for emergency response, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Victorian Faculty Fellows Prize for medical research, and International Federation for Emergency Medicine Humanitarian Award.