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Waheed Arian
Arian Wellbeing, CEO
Speaker Bio
Dr Waheed Arian is an emergency doctor in the NHS UK, author of best-selling memoir In The Wars, a global philanthropist, and the founder of Arian Wellbeing.
Arian Wellbeing is an innovative digital mental health service that provides culturally and language appropriate comprehensive mental health support through human experts powered by AI to organisational staff and communities in the UK and globally, in partnership with government, healthcare, nonprofit and for-profit organisations.
As an adviser, Dr Arian helps governments and global organisations such as the UN, WHO and others with the development of their healthcare and education systems that can address inequalities. He is an NHS Innovation Mentor and was appointed in 2019 to the WHO Roster of Digital Health Experts. He is recognised as a UNESCO Global Hope Hero and a UN Global Goals Goalkeeper for promoting Sustainable Development Goals.
Dr Arian was named UK Doctor of the Year in 2021 and chosen by The Times as a Person of the Year. In 2022 he was given The World Citizen Award from Turkish Radio and Television. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2023 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Cambridge University in 2024 for his pioneering services in medicine.