Dr Rediet Shimeles Workneh is an anesthesiologist, critical care and pain management physician, aspiring public health specialist and member of Global Surgery Umbrella and currently working as consultant at Gradian Health Systems in Ethiopia. She had served as an assistant professor of Anesthesiology at Addis Ababa University, college of Health Sciences and has also worked as a sole anesthesiologist, critical care unit lead and operation theater anesthesia lead of Ghandi Memorial Maternity and Child hospital. She is a Commissioner for the Lancet commission on Medical Oxygen Security and is Research fellow at Addis Continental Institute of Public Health. She is engaged in several international collaborative research and had coauthored in published articles. She had also published a book chapter on ‘Women in Anesthesiology’. She had received several scholarships from international professional associations including American Society of Anesthesiologists, Canadian society of Anesthesiologists, European society of regional anesthesia, World Federation Society of Anesthesiologists, Association of Anesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland and World Anesthesia Society. She is a mother, a global health, global surgery and patient safety advocate and aims to contribute for the betterment of anesthesia, critical care and pain management services in Ethiopia and the rest of the world.