President, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008-2011) President, World Psychiatric Association (2014-2017) President , British Medical Association (2018-2019) Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Kings College London As President of the WPA, he led on and crafted 30 Position Statements on various topics. including characteristics of a good psychiatrist some of which have strongly influenced policy in governments around the world. He established Presidential task Forces on Child abuse and Neglect, Inter-personal Violence, Prisoner mental Health care, Migrant health care, LGBT populations’ mental health care and those of people with intellectual disabilities. He created programmes for mental health promotion and appointed Good Will Ambassadors from Bollywood and Hollywood along with patients and religious leaders. He established 6 WPA Collaborating centres in different parts of the world to share research, policy and training. Following a survey of discrimination against people with mental illness in 193 countries, he developed Bill of Rights for Individuals with mental Illness signed by 60 organisations which was followed by Bills of Rights for Children and young people and for those with intellectual disabilities. As part of the First Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum and in this role helped produce a document on mental health in the workplace. As President of the BMA he led on medicine’s social contract, launch of equity campaign and survey of burnout among doctors and medical students. He has authored/co-authored over 500 scientific papers, chapters , editorials and 40 books. Several of his books have won awards and gone into multiple editions. Three of his books have been translated into Mandarin and Japanese. His Oxford Textbook for Public Mental Health won Book of the Year award in 2019. In the same awards Practical Cultural Psychiatry was highly recommended. He is the Editor of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry and International Review of Psychiatry.