FILE PHOTO: Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, attends a meeting of the commission in Mexico City, Mexico September 21, 2018. Picture taken September 21, 2018. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained "flat-footed" in its response to pandemics it faces future economic, social and political crisis, after she was appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to lead a review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHO announced late on Thursday that Clark and Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will lead a panel scrutinising the global response.
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