[1] He is the youngest ever International Council President of the Nobel Prize–winning Médecins Sans Frontières.
[2] Educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduating with honours from the University of New South Wales, Dr Gillies is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
[4] He has worked on the field for MSF in some of the world's most troubled regions, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Liberia, Beirut, Congo and Sri Lanka.
[6] Gillies delivered the prestigious 52nd annual Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture in 2009 in Brisbane, Australia.
[7][failed verification] He is currently part of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, the findings of which were published in early May 2015.