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GAVI Alliance
GAVI = the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.
-GAVI Alliance Secretariat – Chemin des Mines 1202 Geneva, Switzerland Tel: +41 22 909 6500 | Fax: +41 22 909 6550 | info@gavialliance.org
-GAVI Alliance Secretariat – 1776 I (Eye) Street, NW, Suite 600; Washington DC 20006 (202) 478-1050 | Fax: +1 202 478 1060 | info@gavialliance.org | Website: http://www.gavialliance.org/index.aspx
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From “About“: http://www.gavialliance.org/about/
“Mission” – Saving children’s lives and protecting people’s health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries. “What We Do“: From scientists & bankers to health officials & activists, GAVI partners share one goal: guarantee equal access to vaccines. [Read more (or not).] Funding: http://www.gavialliance.org/funding/
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Board
“With membership drawn from a range of partner organisations, as well as experts from the private sector, the GAVI Alliance Board provides a forum for balanced strategic decision making, innovation and partner collaboration.”
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Cristian Baeza - World Bank
Baeza is the board member representing the World Bank. Currently, he is the Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. …Previous to rejoining the Bank, Dr. Baeza was a Partner in McKinsey and Company leading the Global Health Systems Financing group (Health Systems Policy, Financing, and Health Insurance). Prior to McKinsey, Dr. Baeza was the Lead Health Policy Specialist in the Latin America region of the World Bank and led the formulation of the new World Bank HNP Strategy 2007. …Previously, Dr. Baeza was CEO of the Chilean National Health Fund (FONASA), Senior Health Systems and Health Insurance Specialist for Social Security Policy and Development at the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, and co-editor of the World Health Report 2000 on Health Systems Performance at WHO headquarters in Geneva.—
Armin Fidler - Alternate
Fidler is the alternate board member representing The World Bank. Currently Dr Fidler serves as Lead Advisor for Health Policy and Strategy in the Bank’s Human Development Network. …Prior to this appointment, Dr Fidler was the manager for Health, Nutrition, Population for the Europe and Central Asia Region responsible for the Bank’s health strategy, lending and technical assistance programs, including analytical and advisory work in the European Union, the New Member States and the countries of the former Soviet Union.******
Amie Batson - US/Canada/Australia/Japan/Korea
Batson is the board member representing donor country governments USA/Canada/Australia. …She joined USAID as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health and USAID Deputy of the Global Health Initiative (GHI) following a 20-year career in global health that included positions in the WHO, UNICEF, and most recently, the World Bank. As one of the original members of the GAVI Alliance, she led the World Bank’s efforts in vaccine financing, including the establishment of new financing mechanisms like the Advance Market Commitment and the use of donor financing to “buy-down” loans from the International Development Assistance program. …These efforts provided billions of dollars for global health and helped to vaccinate millions of children against polio, pneumonia, diarrhea, and other vaccine preventable causes of death. —
Jenny Da Rin - Alternate
Da Rin is Assistant Director General, Health Education and Scholarships Branch, for AusAID. Prior to this she was Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Senior Adviser to the Minister for Defence. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation.******
Wayne Berson - “Independent individual”
Berson is an independent individual board member. Mr Berson is a Partner and National Director of Not-for-Profit Services at BDO USA LLP and is also the Mid Atlantic Assurance Regional Business Line Leader and the Director of BDO USA’s Institute for Nonprofit Excellence. …Prior to these positions, Mr Berson held several leadership positions in the fields of non-profit and governmental auditing and consulting at BDO USA LLP. Mr Berson holds an accounting degree from the University of Cape Town. ******
Agnès Binagwaho - Alternate / Developing countries Rwanda
Binagwaho is an alternate board member representing developing countries. Currently, Dr Binagwaho serves as Permanent Secretary in the Rwandan Ministry of Health. …Prior to this appointment, Permanent Secretary Binagwaho served as Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National Commission to Fight AIDS. As a paediatrician specializing in Emergency Paediatrics and the treatment of HIV/AIDS in children and adults, Permanent Secretary Binagwaho also developed standards of care for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in Rwanda.******
Toupta Boguena - Developing Countries Chad
Boguena is a board member representing Chad as a developing country. Appointed Minister of Health for Chad in March 2010, she launched several programmes to give citizens free access to emergency care, tuberculosis and HIV treatments, vaccines, antenatal and childbirth care in hospitals. She is also a botany and plant biology assistant professor at the University of Ndjamena. Previously, she was adviser to the Prime Minister on Environment. …Dr. Boguena founded in 2003 a non-profit organisation, the Organization for Community Supported Sustainable Agriculture in Chad (OCSSAC). This organisation is helping eight villages near Ndjamena to install pumps for clean water, build a medical clinic and school, and start a community garden. …Dr Boguena earned a bachelor’s degree in general agriculture and a master’s degree in agronomy and plant genetics from the University of Arizona. She also obtained a PhD in botany from the Brigham Young University (BYU), Utah and is fluent in four languages. —
Fatchou Gakaitangou - Alternate
Gakaitangou is Head of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness at the Ministry of Health of Chad. In the past he was Public Health Officer for the Health Sector Support Project funded by the World Bank and was National Leprosy Elimination Program manager. He has received two national awards for contribution to Cholera Epidemic Control and Leprosy Elimination in Chad. He earned his MD at Minsk in the former Soviet Union and his MPH from Tulane in the United States. ******
Ronald Brus - Vaccine industry – Industrialised
Brus is Crucell’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He has been a member of Crucell’s Management Committee since the Company’s incorporation and was formerly Chief Operating Officer (March 2003 to January 2004) and Chief Business Officer (October 2000 to February 2003). Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President Business Development after joining the Company in 1997. From 1994 to 1996 he was product planning physician at Forest Laboratories in New York and from 1990 to 1994 he was Medical Director for Zambon B.V.—
Olga Popova - Alternate
Popova is currently the Head of Government Affairs & Public Health in Crucell, based in Switzerland, leading the policy development on International and European levels. She joined Crucell in 2007. Prior to that, Dr Popova gained her vaccinology experience at Novartis Vaccines, starting in 2001 as an Associate Director of Medical Affairs, where she took care of numerous worldwide vaccines projects, covering the fields of influenza, meningitis and rabies. …She also headed the Medical Support team, responsible for providing scientific and medical information services for infectious diseases and vaccines. Dr Popova worked for 10 years in the pharmaceutical sector, in a number of clinical development and medical affairs positions based in Europe. Dr Popova holds a dual Russian / Italian citizenship.******
Dwight L. Bush - “Independent individual”
Bush is an “unaffiliated” board member. Mr Bush recently retired as President & CEO of Urban Trust Bank (UTB). As President, Mr Bush was responsible for developing, overseeing and implementing policies, plans and programs for UTB, including growth of the bank’s deposit base and development of strategic lines of business such as the mortgage and student loan programs. …Prior to this position, Mr Bush held several prominent positions at The Chase Manhattan Bank, and was the bank’s first African American Managing Director.******
Flavia Bustreo - World Health Organization
Bustreo is the board member representing the World Health Organization. Currently, she is Assistant Director-General for Family and Community Health for WHO and was Director of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health. …Dr Bustreo had assignments at the World Bank and Norway and in country and regional offices of the World Health Organization (WHO) including Sudan, Senegal, Bangladesh, as well as WHO’s EURO office in Copenhagen and headquarters in Geneva. Dr Bustreo’s career in international health has focused on diseases affecting the poor and the disadvantaged. Her work with the WHO focused on child health but also included tuberculosis surveillance and control, particularly multi-drug resistant TB. …Italian by birth, Dr Bustreo has also worked in Italy with local NGOs, setting up primary health care system for refugees in the former Yugoslavia, and assessing the condition of Iraqi children in the aftermath of the Gulf War.—
Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele - Alternate
Okwo-Bele is the alternate board member representing the World Health Organization. Dr Okwo-Bele has been Director of the WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals since 2004. He is responsible for strategic direction, coordination and management of normative and programmatic immunization activities. …During his 27 years in public health, Dr Okwo-Bele has worked at country, regional and global levels in support of the expansion of childhood immunization programmes, contributing to policy formulation, capacity building, programme planning and evaluation, and disease surveillance. …From 1993 to 2002, he directed the Polio Eradication Initiative in Africa, resulting in the reduction of polio endemic countries from 34 to 2. In mid-2000, he coordinated the development of the WHO/UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy for 2006-2015, which set a number of immunization goals and strategies aimed at expanding the benefits of existing and new vaccines to more people. ******
Mahima Datla - Vaccine industry – Developing
Datla is the alternate board member representing the developing country vaccine industry. Currently, Ms Datla serves as the Senior Vice president for Bio-Technology and Projects Division in Biological E. Limited. …She has been in charge of co-ordination for the development of cell culture based in-activated Japanese encephalitis vaccines in India in partnership with Intercell of Austria, which is at the forefront of the industry. During her experience at BE, she has also been involved in strategy and business development functions.—
Suresh Jadhav - Alternate
Jadhav is the board member representing the developing country vaccine industry. Currently, Dr Jadhav serves as the Executive Director of Serum Institute of India Ltd. …Prior to his current position, Dr Jadhav served on the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) and was President of the Steering Committee of Developing Country Vaccine Manufacturers Network.******
Helen Evans - GAVI Interim CEO
Helen Evans, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of GAVI since June 2009, has been appointed by the GAVI Alliance Board as Interim Chief Executive Officer as of 7 October 2010 until such time as a new CEO is in place. In this capacity, Helen will sit as a non-voting Board member on the GAVI Alliance Board. She will also participate as a non-voting Committee member of the Executive Committee, the Governance Committee, and the Programme and Policy Committee. Prior to joining GAVI, Helen served for four years as the Deputy Executive Director at the Global Fund to Fights AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Helen is an Australian who has had 30 years experience as a senior manager in health and social policy. She holds a bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Psychology and a graduate degree in Social Administration. Her career in health has included key posts within the Australian Government, including heading the National Communicable Diseases Program in the Australian Health Ministry for the first half of 1990s and heading the Australian Government‘s Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health from 1997-2005. Helen has worked closely with AusAID, Australia‘s development assistance agency, advising on HIV/AIDS programmes in the Asia Pacific region. Helen represented Australia on the first UNAIDS Board. ******
Paul Fife - UK/Norway/Ireland
Paul Richard Fife is the board member representing the UK/Norway/Ireland donor governments. Currently, Dr Fife serves as the Director of the Department for Global Health, Education and Research at Norad – the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. …Prior to this, Dr Fife worked with UNICEF in Eritrea, Cambodia and New York. His field of expertise includes health sector management, vaccines and immunization services and international public health.—
Abigail Robinson - Alternate
Robinson is the alternate board member representing UK/Norway/Ireland. Ms Robinson has over ten years international development experience, in West and Central Africa, South America and the Caribbean. As the UK Department for International Development’s (DIFD) Programme Manager based in Sierra Leone and Liberia, she focused on the development of health sector plans, coordinated donor support and the development of the Government of Sierra Leone’s Reproductive and Child Health Strategy. …She has covered Head of DFID offices in Montserrat, Cameroon and the Gambia, leading on Programme Management in the Health, Governance, Finance, Education and Infrastructure sectors, and has managed programmes in St Helena. …Ms Robinson also has NGO experience in Chile and has worked in Paediatric Hospitals in Romania. She is currently Global Funds Policy & Programme Coordinator at DFID, providing policy, programme and financial support and advice in relation to the GAVI Alliance, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB & Malaria and UNITAID.******
Ashutosh Garg - “Independent individual”
Garg is an “unaffiliated” board member. Mr Garg is the founding chairman of Guardian Lifecare Pvt Ltd, India’s largest chain of health and beauty stores. Mr Garg has also started a social initiative called “Aushadhi” to provide basic health services in rural India through the establishment of pharmacies using micro credit. …Prior to this position, Mr Garg held positions at ITC Limited, Lockheed Martin and Hughes. He was also member of the Advisory Council of the Centre for Policy Research, a premier think tank supported by the Government of India.******
Guillermo González -Developing Countries Nicaragua/Bolivia
Guillermo José González González is the board member representing developing country governments. Currently the Coordinador de Proyectos Sociales de la Presidencia de la República de Nicaragua, Dr González has been a leader in Central America in the process of regional integration in the field of health. This was reflected in the initiatives he promoted at the onset of the human influenza pandemic, the processes for joint drug procurement he supported and the development of the Agenda and Plan of Health for Central America. …Dr. González’s work has demonstrated a strong commitment to the restoration of the right to health and its universalization, especially among the poorer sectors of the population. Prior to his appointment as Minister of Health Dr González was the Nicaragua Vice Minister of Health and a Permanent Investigator of the Center for Health Research and Studies.—
Nila Heredia Miranda - Alternate
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Gustavo Gonzalez-Canali -France/Luxembourg/EC/Germany
Gonzalez-Canali is the board member representing the France/Luxembourg/European Commission donor governments. Currently, Dr Gonzalez-Canali serves as Special Health Adviser at the General Directorate for Globalisation at the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. …Prior to this appointment, Dr Gonzales-Canali served as adviser to the former French Minister Delegate for Cooperation, Development and Francophony. He also served as a clinical investigator on AIDS vaccine trials with the French Agency for AIDS and Hepatitis Research (ANRS), the Medical Director of Professor Luc Montaigner’s HIV research Centre in Paris and Head of the outpatient clinic at the Institut Pasteur.******
Geeta Rao Gupta - UNICEF
Gupta is UNICEF’s Deputy Executive Director. Previously, she was a Senior Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she advised the president and leadership of the Global Development Program on their strategies and offered insight on managing projects to achieve the greatest impact. Prior to joining the foundation, Dr. Rao Gupta was president of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), a position she assumed in 1997 after serving in a variety of roles including consultant, researcher and officer.—
Pascal Villeneuve - Alternate
Villeneuve is the alternate board member representing UNICEF. Currently, Dr Villeneuve serves as the UNICEF Associate Director (Partnerships Programme). …Prior to this appointment, Dr Villeneuve served as Chief of the Health Section in the Programme Division, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); Programme Officer, Health Section; UNICEF Representative in Cameroon; UNICEF Representative in Mali; and Nutrition Adviser for the League of the Red Cross Societies in Mali and in Niger. ******
Alan Hinman - CSOs
Hinman is the board member representing Civil Society Organisations. Currently, Dr Hinman serves as Senior Public Health Scientist at The Task Force for Child Survival and Development. In addition, Dr Hinman is an Adjunct Professor at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University (Departments of Epidemiology and International Health). …Prior to these appointments, Dr Hinman served for an extended period in the US Public Health Service/CDC and retired with the rank of Assistant Surgeon General.—
Joan Awunyo-Akaba – Alternate
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Dagfinn Høybråten - Chair
Høybråten is the Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board and an “unaffiliated” Board member. Mr Høybråten is the Leader of the Norwegian ‘Christian’ Democratic Party. He is also a member of the Storting (representing Rogaland County), a Parliamentary Leader of his party and a member of the Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defence. …Prior to this position Mr Høybråten has held several senior positions in Norwegian Government including Minister of Health, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and State Secretary, Ministry of Finance and a Member of the Board of Governors of Norways Central Bank. As a Minister Mr.Høybråten was responsible for initiating several major health and social reforms, including a new tobacco control legislation, a comprehensive Mental Health Plan and a reorganization of the welfare administration. …Mr. Høybråten has also served as the Director General of Norway Social Security Administration, an Executive Director of the Norwegian Assocation of Local Government and a Chief Executive of the municipality of Oppegård.******
Trinh Quan Huan - Developing Countries Vietnam
Trinh Quan Huan is a board member representing developing countries. Currently, Dr. Huan serves as Vietnam’s Vice Minister of Health, Professor at Hanoi Medical University and a Technical Supervisor at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. …Prior to this appointment, Dr Huan served as Co-Manager of the DFID Fund Project on HIV/AIDS as well as Manager of both the Global Fund and World Bank projects on HIV/AIDS.—
Nguyen Tran Hien - Alternate
Nguyen Tran Hien is an alternate board member representing developing countries. Currently, Dr. Hien serves as Director, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), Hanoi, Vietnam, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Public Health, Chairman, Department of Epidemiology, Hanoi Medical University and Vice-President, Vietnam Public Health Association. …Prior to these appointments Dr Hien served as Coordinator of the National AIDS Prevention and Control Program at NIHE; Coordinator of the National HIV Surveillance Program at NIHE and Member of Technical Group on HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Estimation and at the Vietnamese Ministry of Health.******
Anders Nordström - Netherlands/Sweden/ Denmark
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Annie Vestjens - Alternate
Vestjens is the alternate board member representing Donor Governments Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark. Currently, she is Senior Policy Health Advisor in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr Vestjens is a physician, specialised in tropical diseases and holder of a masters in health policy, planning and financing. She has over 19 years experience working overseas, of which 10 years was at district and provincial level in Zambia as medical officer and technical advisor respectively. …From 2001-2005 she was First Secretary for Health at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Yemen and from 2005-2009 First Secretary for Health in Mozambique. In 2009 she was posted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague at the Social Development Department, in the Health and AIDS Division. She is the focal point for WHO, GAVI and Access to Medicines.******
Abdulkarim Rasae - Developing Countries Yemen
Rasae is a board member representing developing countries. Currently, Dr Rasae serves as the “Honourable” Minister of Health and Population of Yemen. …Prior to this appointment, Minister Rasae served as Rector of Aden University where he was also Professor of Paediatric Medicine; Deputy Minister of Health for Medical Services and Health Care and Head of the Department of Paediatrics at both the al-Thoura and al-Kuwait Hospitals, Yemen.—
Magid Al-Gunaid - Alternate
Al-Gunaid is an alternate board member representing developing countries. Currently, Dr Al-Gunaid serves as the Deputy Minister for Primary Health Care in the Yemeni Ministry for Public Health and Population. …Prior to this appointment, Dr Al-Gunaid served as a national expert in health systems management and health services delivery with several international organizations including; WHO, UNICEF, GTZ and the World Bank.******
Anne Schuchat - Research & technical health institute
Schuchat is the board member representing Research and Technical Health Institutes. As Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Schuchat is well known for her expertise in a broad range of infectious diseases. Notably, she was recently elected to the US Institute of Medicine in recognition of her scientific contributions. …In recognition of her technical and field knowledge, Dr Schuchat has been an active member of the Executive Committee of the Hib Initiative and has served on numerous other global vaccine steering committees.—
Stefan Kaufmann - Alternate
Kaufmann is the alternate board member representing Research and Technical Health Institutes. Dr Kaufman is currently Director of the Department of Immunology of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, and the current President of the European Federation of Immunological Societies. …Dr Kaufmann’s contribution and leadership are widely recognized among his peers in the immunological and vaccinology community, and he has shown his capacity to bridge research interests and leadership with his commitment to calling attention to poverty-related diseases via his longstanding personal commitment to poverty-related diseases. …A founding member and director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Dr Kaufmann is also an honorary professor of the Charité, Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University Berlin.******
José Luis Solano - Italy/Spain
Ambassador José Luis Solano is a senior diplomat with 32 years of extensive experience in the diplomatic field, including monitoring Spanish cooperation projects. From August 2006, he was Deputy Director General in the Foreign Affairs Office for Asia and the Pacific. He was also Ambassador on Special Mission of Political Reconstruction and Stabilisation in Afghanistan. He has also served as Spain’s ambassador to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Chad.—
Leone Gianturco - Alternate
Gianturco is the alternate board member for donor governments Italy/Spain. He is Director in the International Financial Relations Directorate of the Treasury Department, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy, as an Alternate Board Member representing donor country governments (Italy/Spain). …An economist, he contributes to the preparation of Government policy in several formal and informal international for a, with special focus on the development agenda, including innovative financing mechanism for health (IFFIm and the AMC initiative). He serves as the Italian representative in the Investment Facility Committee of the European Investment Bank. Since 2006, he participates as an observer to the GAVI Board, while representing Italy in the IFFIm donors meetings (most recently also in the AMC Shareholder’s meeting). He actively participated in the G8 health experts’ group (2009) and in the G20 Devilment Working Group (2010). …He is active in the research fields a development economist (PhD in Development Economics), with special focus on Africa. He published several articles on development and peace-building. He speaks fluently English, Portuguese and French. ******
Jaime Sepulveda - Vice chair. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Sepulveda was appointed as the Vice Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board in November 2009. Currently, Dr Sepulveda is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Senior Fellow in the Global Health Program, and deputy to Global Health President, Dr. Tachi Yamada. Dr Sepulveda plays a central role in shaping the foundation’s strategy for effective health solutions including increasing vaccine access in developing countries. …He has served for more than 20 years in a variety of senior health posts in the Mexican government, including as director of the National Institutes of Health of Mexico from 2003 to 2006; the director-general of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health and dean of the National School of Public Health. Dr Sepulveda is an experienced architect of effective public health programs in Mexico including the national health surveillance system, the Universal Vaccination Program, and the National AIDS Council. …He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. —
Rajeev Venkayya - Alternate
Venkayya is the alternate board member representing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Venkayya serves as director of Global Health Vaccine Delivery, oversees late-stage development of health technologies and interventions as well as efforts to expand access to health solutions in the developing world. …Previously, Venkayya served as special assistant to the U.S. president and senior director for biodefense at the White House. One of his key responsibilities was development and implementation of the U.S. strategy for pandemic influenza. He served as an advisor to the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was one of 13 nonpartisan White House Fellows appointed by President Bush in 2002. … Venkayya is a pulmonary and critical care physician and assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Previously, he directed the high-risk asthma clinic and co-directed the Medical Intensive Care Unit at San Francisco General Hospital.******
George W. Wellde - “Independent individual”
Wellde is an “unaffiliated” board member. Mr Wellde is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Richmond and is a retired partner and vice chairman of the Securities Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. …Prior to his retirement Mr Wellde held several senior leadership posts at Goldman, Sachs & Co including branch manager of the Tokyo office and head of North American sales. | CFR: Wa-We « Fed up USA - Prior to Goldman Sachs, George worked in Washington, D.C. for the Federal Reserve Board.——
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Nina Schwalbe – policy and performance
Prior to joining GAVI in 2008, Nina directed the policy department at the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, a product development partnership focused on the development of medicines for tuberculosis. In this capacity, she led the TB Alliances efforts to promote adoption and introduction of new TB drugs, co-chaired the Stop TB Partnership’s task force on retooling and was a member of the Center for Global Development’s working group on demand forecasting. …Nina has spent over 20 years in international health. For seven years she directed the Soros’ Foundations global public health programme, which focused on a range of critical issues, including strengthening health systems, TB, HIV/AIDS, and programs aimed at vulnerable populations. She also worked in maternal/child health, first with the Population Council and then with AVSC International (now Engender Health), focusing on the introduction of new programmes and technologies. …Nina holds degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities, is member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the faculty of the department of population and family health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. She has served on the programme committees for Doctors of the World USA, Treatment Action Groups TB/HIV project, and the Open Society Institute’s Public Health Watch programme, as well as on the boards of the Stop TB Partnership, the European Observatory for Health Care Reform, AIDS Foundation East/West, the Open Health Institute in Moscow, and IGLHRC.******
Mercy Ahun – programme delivery
Mercy has been in charge of GAVI’s Programme Delivery department (formerly Country Support) since 2003. She has oversight responsibility for supporting GAVI eligible countries to implement the introduction of new and under-used vaccines and strengthen their health systems. She has coordinated various GAVI work streams including the Hib study, which led to the creation of the Hib Initiative in 2005. …Mercy has more than 20 years experience working in policy development and implementation of integrated health services and immunisation programmes in developing countries. …comes from Ghana. Prior to joining GAVI, she worked with the national immunisation programme and was also responsible for public health services at the district and provincial levels.******
Joelie Tanguy – external relations
She has spent the last 20 years in senior management of global health organisations, most recently as Senior Vice President at the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria (GBC), as well as committee member and focal point for the private sector on the Board of Directors of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Her previous responsibilities included founding Director of Advocacy and Public Affairs at the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), and US Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). …Joelle also brings experience from Africa, where she headed medical missions in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia, as well as a private sector background: her prior career was as a junior executive in information technologies product marketing in California, France and Japan. …is a French and US national.******
Barry Greene – finance and operations
His career spans the commercial and cause-driven sectors with over thirty years’ experience in finance, general management and consulting. Barry brings to GAVI considerable knowledge of development financing from his immediately prior role as Chief Financial Officer of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He was integral to the development of the Global Fund’s financial management, fundraising and grant making for more than seven years from its inception in 2002. …Drawing on a background in business restructuring acquired while training with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Barry’s initial post-qualification years were devoted to the successful turnaround of a group of manufacturing companies in Ireland. Following that, he moved to Switzerland as general manager of a financial consultancy firm and later was Chief Executive of an internet enterprise. His desire to apply business acumen to the advancement of global needs led him to the World Wide Fund for Nature where he was responsible for financial planning and corporate marketing. He developed and implemented WWF’s corporate Conservation Partner initiative and managed other innovative fundraising mechanisms. …An Irish citizen, Barry is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.******
David Ferreira – innovative finance
Prior to joining GAVI full-time in April 2010, David Ferreira was the founding investment manager of Soul City Broad-Based Empowerment Company (SCBBEC), an investment company owned by the South African non-profit organisation Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication. David is currently a non-executive director of ADvTECH Ltd, a listed education company, as well as of SCBBEC. He also served as a non-executive director of the MIIU Company, which provided financial and technical assistance to South African municipalities seeking to create public-private partnerships; this was an appointment made by the Cabinet of the Mandela government. …was a founding shareholder and director of Praxis Capital, a private equity business focused on South Africa’s healthcare and education sectors. Before Praxis, David’s background was largely in project and corporate finance. He established and managed the Private Sector Investments Unit of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Prior to that, at the World Bank, David helped to design new financial instruments to enable governments in Asia and Latin America to attract private financing to infrastructure projects. …started his career in South Africa as a human rights and labour lawyer. He also subsequently practiced with the US law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, assisting clients with financings in the bank, bond and equities markets. …is a Rhodes Scholar.******
Debbie Adams – legal and governance
Prior to joining GAVI in August 2010, Debbie was the Director of Law and Governance at the London Development Agency. In this capacity Debbie led the legal and governance support for the acquisition of the Olympic Land and Olympic Legacy for Londoners post 2012, led the negotiations for the transfer of the Olympic legacy and provided support for numerous multimillion regeneration projects involving Government stakeholders, the Mayor’s office, leading banks, major developers and the Third sector. Debbie was also Secretary to the Board and Board committees of the London Development Agency as well as being a member of the Executive Team. …Debbie has over 20 years experience as a solicitor with international expertise in supporting organisations in periods of significant change, ensuring legal compliance and maximising commercial opportunities. Debbie started her career at Allen & Overy, solicitors, moving to Harland and Wolff Holdings plc in Belfast, Eurotunnel plc, Angel Trains Ltd (a subsidiary of RBS at that time) and National Air Traffic Services Ltd where she has provided legal support in a multi jurisdictional and international environments for large and prestigious projects. …holds a law degree from Warwick University and is a member of the Law Society in England and Wales.——
