Nafis Sadik

Nafis Sadik (18 August 1929 – 14 August 2022) was a Pakistani physician, special adviser to the UN secretary general with additional responsibilities as special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia, and former executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from 1987 to 2000. She retired from the post in December 2000.

Sadik joined the Pakistan Central Family Planning Council in 1966 as director of planning and training, the government agency charged with carrying out the national family planning programme. She was appointed deputy director-general in 1968 and director-general in 1970.

After her retirement from the United Nations Population Fund, she served on several boards of directors and advisory panels of non-profit organizations and research institutions in the area of population control, including on the advisor board for the German Foundation for World Population. Sadik was an emeritus member of Population Action International. Sadik's husband and a daughter predeceased her. She was survived by three daughters - Ambereen Dar, Wafa Hasan, Ghazala Abedi and a son, Omar Sadik.

Population: The UNFPA Experience (New York University Press, 1984) Population Policies and Programmes: Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Experience (New York University Press, 1991) Making a Difference: Twenty-five Years of UNFPA Experience (Banson, London, United Kingdom, 1994)