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Dagfinn Høybråten is the Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board. As of 3 March 2013, he is
the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers. Prior to these positions Mr
Høybråten has held several senior positions in Norwegian Government including Vice
President of The Norwegian Parliament representing the Christian Democratic Party
and a member of the Standing committee for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Minister of
Health, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and State Secretary, Ministry of Finance
and a Member of the Board of Governors of Norway’s Central Bank. As a Minister, Mr
Høybråten was responsible for initiating several major health and social reforms,
including 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 Association of Local Government and a
Chief Executive of the municipality of Oppegård. Mr Høybråten holds a degree in Political Science from
the University of Oslo.
Wayne Berson is a Partner and the Chief Executive Officer of BDO USA, LLP. Prior to
his election to this position, Mr Berson was BDO's Presiding Member of the Board, theMid Atlantic Assurance Regional Managing Partner, the National Director of Not-for-
Profit Services, and the Director of the Institute for Nonprofit Excellence. He is
Chairman of the Global Board of Directors of BDO International, Ltd. Mr Berson holds
accounting degrees from the University of Cape Town and the University of South
Africa.
Gunilla Carlsson is a center-right politician born 1963 in Sweden, with extensive
experience of domestic, EU and international politics and negotiation. She was an
elected Member of Swedish Parliament and Minister of International Development
Cooperation 2006-2013. Gunilla´s career in politics include; 1st vice Chair of
conservative party, member of European Parliament, 1995-2002, Vice Chair of
European Peoples Party (EPP), Member of World Bank Gender Advisory Council,
Chair of Swedish initiated Commission on Climate Change and Development ahead of
Copenhagen 2009. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon appointed her to the high level
panel for global sustainability ahead of the conference in Rio de Janeiro 2012 and also to the high-level
panel for global development goals post 2015. Gunilla has worked with foreign policy, human rights,
employment, research, security- and defence policy, development as well as economic commission work.
In addition, she has experience and understanding of development and implementation of policy reforms
and efficiency and accountability in complex organisations.
H.R.H. the Infanta Cristina of Spain is the Director of International Programmes of
“la Caixa” Foundation in charge of global health and development projects in the
world’s most vulnerable countries. HRH has been a dedicated advocate on the fight
against child mortality since her involvement and commitment with the Gavi Alliance
in 2005. She led the partnership between “la Caixa” and Gavi Alliance, the creation of
the employee scheme and the Business Alliance for Child Vaccination, a corporate
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Richard Sezibera is Secretary General of the East African Community, the regional
intergovernmental organisation of the Republics of Kenya, Uganda, the United
Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Rwanda and Republic of Burundi. Prior to his
appointment, Dr Sezibera served as Minister of Health of the Republic of Rwanda
(October 2008 - April 2011), and as a GAVI Board member representing developing
country governments. He has served in many capacities in the Rwandan government,
including Ambassador to the US, Presidential Special Envoy to the Great Lakes
Region, and Senior Advisor to the President of Rwanda, where he worked on peace
and security, conflict management and resolution, and regional integration issues. Dr
Sezibera graduated with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees and has practiced
medicine for many years in Uganda and Rwanda. He also has a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from
Georgetown University. He is the author of many journal publications in the field of politics and
international affairs.
David Sidwell is Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Risk Committee of
UBS, where he is also a member of the Governance and Nominating Committee. MrSidwell is also a Director and Chairperson of the Risk Policy and Capital Committee of
Fannie Mae in Washington, DC, and a senior advisor at Oliver Wyman in New York.
He is a board member and serves on the Audit Committee of Ace Limited, Chairman
of the Board of Village Care in New York, and a Director of the National Council on
Aging in Washington, DC. Mr Sidwell previously served as Executive Vice President
and CFO of Morgan Stanley. Before joining Morgan Stanley he worked for JPMorgan
Chase & Co., where, in his 20 years of service, he held a number of different positions, including
controller and, from 2000 to 2004, CFO of the Investment Bank. Prior to this, he was with Price
Waterhouse in both London and New York. Mr Sidwell graduated from Cambridge University and
qualified as a chartered accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Stephen Zinser was Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer of ECM
Asset Management. ECM was co-founded in February 1999 by Stephen. ECM was
set up as an independent asset management company focused on the European fixed
income credit markets which grew rapidly following the advent of the Euro. ECM
reached €21 billion assets under management in 2007. In January 2007, Wachovia
Bank acquired a majority stake in ECM. ECM is now fully owned by Wells Fargo Bank
and operates as an autonomous boutique under the Wells Fargo umbrella. Prior to co-
founding ECM, Stephen held posts at Merrill Lynch International, London from 1993 to
1999 following a 13 year career at The Chase Manhattan Bank which he joined
straight from Cornell in 1979. Stephen is a Member of Gonville and Caius (Cambridge) CollegeDevelopment Campaign Board where he advises on fund raising and other matters.
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Orin Levine is Director, Vaccine Delivery, Global Development Program. Dr Levine
leads the foundation’s efforts to accelerate the introduction of new vaccines and
related technologies and to improve routine immunization systems. He is the
Foundation’s focal point for engagement with the GAVI Alliance whose mission is
saving children’s lives by increasing access to immunization in poor countries. Before
joining the foundation’s Global Development Program in 2012, Dr Levine was a
Professor of International Health, and Executive Director of the International Vaccine
Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public
Health. He has also served as a Steering Committee Member of the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration
and Co-Chair of its Global Access Working Group, as well as President, Committee on Global Health,
American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. Dr Levine graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from
Gettysburg College and received a PhD in epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health.
Violaine Mitchell is Deputy Director for Vaccine Delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation where she leads the Country Immunization Programmes and Partnershipsteam. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2010, she worked as an independent
consultant including as the Coordinator of the GAVI Alliance Financing Task Force
(2000-06), which was responsible for Gavi’s early work on national financial
sustainability planning and global innovative financing. She previously worked at the
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, where she was the Study
Director for a study on the Children’s Vaccine Initiative and Assistant Study Director
for the IOM Study on Malaria Prevention and Control. She has also spent a number of years working on
integrated community development projects in the Middle East and North Africa. She has a BA in
Development Studies from Brown University and an MSc in Tropical Public Health from the Harvard
School of Public Health.
Tim Evans is the Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. Dr.
Evans has been active in the international health arena for more than 20 years. Before
joining the World Bank he was the Dean of the James P. Grant School of Public
Health of BRAC University in Bangladesh. Previously he served as Assistant Director
General at the World Health Organization, heading the Evidence, Information,
Research and Policy Clusters, where he oversaw the production of the annual World
Health Report. Dr. Evans has been a leader in advancing global health equity and
health systems performance throughout his career, notably through his work with the
Rockefeller Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health and with his contributions to the
development of innovative partnerships, including the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization,INDEPTH and Health Metrics networks, the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the World Alliance for
Patient Safety. Dr. Evans earned his DPhil in agricultural economics at Oxford, and pursued medical and
postgraduate studies at McMaster and Harvard Universities.
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Rama Lakshminarayanan is a Senior Health Specialist at the World Bank and
provides technical leadership in the area of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and
adolescent health. She is a core member of the Global Financing Facility team and
represents the Bank on the H4+ technical group as well as serves as an Alternate
Board Member on the PMNCH Board. She recently completed an external service
assignment where she held a joint position with the World Health Organization and
Partnership of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) as a Senior Adviser on
reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health issues. Prior to this position, she
worked for almost twenty years in international health and development at the World Bank which she
joined in 1993 through the Young Professionals Program. She has led large health programs in East
Asia, and Southern and Eastern Africa, and she has extensive experience working on women’s and
children’s health, health systems strengthening, communicable diseases, and results based financing
programs in the health sector. She has served on the Policy and Program Committee of GAVI, and has
worked as a Senior Fellow at the International Women’s Health Coalition and with UNICEF in India. She
is a medical doctor and has an MBA.
Geeta Rao Gupta is UNICEF’s Deputy Executive Director. Dr Rao Gupta joined
UNICEF in June 2011 and brings over 20 years of experience in international
development programming, advocacy and research to the UN children’s agency. Prior
to her appointment, Dr Rao Gupta served as a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation from 2010 to 2011. She acted as the senior advisor to the Global
Development Programme on the strategic direction and management of a cross-
cutting range of issues and projects. From 1996 to 2010, Dr Rao Gupta was the
president of the International Centre for Research on Women. She conducted and
oversaw research on topics ranging from the social and economic factors that affect women’s use of
maternal nutrition and health care services, to girls’ and women’s vulnerability to HIV. Under h er
leadership, the ICRW catalyzed policy and programmatic change for women and children around the
globe. Dr Rao Gupta has also led and participated in numerous high-level, global initiatives for women
and children, including the U.N. Millennium Project’s Task Force on Education and Gender Equality and
the U.N. Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network. Dr Rao Gupta is the recipient of numerous
awards, including Harvard University’s 2006 Anne Roe Award and the 2007 Washington Business
Journal’s “Women Who Mean Business” Award. She earned a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from
Bangalore University and an M.Phil. and M.A. from the University of Delhi, India. Dr Rao Gupta is married
and has a daughter. She was born in India, and is an American citizen.
Shanelle Hall is the Director of UNICEF Supply Division, the organization’s
procurement and logistics headquarters in Copenhagen. She oversees UNICEF’sglobal supply activities and emergency supply response, with an annual expenditure
approaching US$ 3 billion. She is responsible for both the global availability and local
delivery of essential supplies for children in over 150 countries. This is achieved
through working with UNICEF programmes, cooperating with governments, and
coordinating with UN agencies and other partners. Prior to joining UNICEF, she
worked for nine years in the private sector in the area of energy infrastructure
development in a number of countries. She is a US national from Seattle, Washington.
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Flavia Bustreo is Vice Chair of the Gavi Board, and is WHO's Assistant Director-
General for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health and previously 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. Dr Bustreo received a degree in medicine and
a postgraduate qualification in rehabilitation medicine from Padua University, Italy, and later obtained a
M.Sc. in Communicable Disease Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine. Dr Bustreo speaks fluent English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian and has studied
Russian and Arabic.
Jean-Marie 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.
Dr Seif Seleman Rashid is Minister of Health and Social Welfare of the United
Republic of Tanzania. He also serves as Member of Parliament for the Rufiji
constituency. Previously he served as Deputy Minister until his elevation to Minister in
January 2014. Prior to this he was Director of Health for the Red Cross in Tanzania.
For many years he served as Planning & Development Coordinator for the Ilala
Municipality in Tanzania and has also served as an Assistant Medical doctor and a
clinical officer. He has published articles on a wide range of topics including Diabetes,
HIV, smoking habits, Hypertension, and non-communicable diseases. Minister Rashidhas a PhD in medical science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, a Masters in International
Health from Queen Margaret College, and an Advanced Diploma in clinical medicine from the KCMC
Medical School, Tanzania.
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Kesetebirhane Admasu is currently serving as the Minister of Health (MOH) of the
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Prior to his appointment as Minister in
November 2012, Dr. Kesete served as State Minister of Health, Program Sector and
Director General of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, General Directorate of
MOH. In his capacities as State Minister and Director General, Dr. Kesete oversaw
the health sector reform and led the implementation of the country’s flagship program,
the health extension program, which significantly expanded the coverage of public
health services. Dr. Kesete has been spearheading the establishment of over a three
million health development army (HDA) to ensure the massive social mobilization for health care service
utilization, through participatory learning and action meetings. The HDA is regarded as the key vehicle
that would help Ethiopia achieve its ambitious Five Year Health Sector Development Programme’s
targets and Millennium Development Goals. He has also championed a number of innovative
approaches in regards to delivering maternal and child health care services, task-shifting and
implementation of large scale health care interventions such as the roll out of integrated community case
management of childhood illnesses and insertion of single-rod implant through the health extension
platform. While Chief Executive Officer of the largest public psychiatric facility in Ethiopia, H.E. Dr.
Kesete’s leadership in transforming how psychiatric services are delivered has become a model for
scaling up and the delivery of mental health care in Ethiopia. Dr. Kesete has also been nominated asoutstanding 2013 Harvard Health Leader which is part of the Ministerial Leadership in Health Program at
Harvard University. A medical doctor by training with a Masters in Public Health, H.E. Dr. Kesete has
dedicated his entire career to public service and scientific research focused on major public health
problems in Ethiopia.
Khaga Raj Adhikari is Minister of Health and Population of Nepal. He is a life
member of the Red Cross Society and founding president of the National Lake
Conservation Committee. Prior to his appointment he served as a member of
parliament from 1995-2000. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MA in
Nepali linguistics.
Eksavang Vongvichit is Minister of Health for the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Prior to this he served as Deputy Minister of Health, Director General of Mittaphab
Hospital and Chief of the Pediatric Department of Mahosot Hospital. He is also
Professor and Chairman of Internal Medicine at the National University of Laos. He
speaks English, French, Russian, and Vietnamese. Minister Vongvichit received his
MD from Hanoi Medical University and his Ph.D. on cardiology from Kharkov MedicalInstitute. A part from his professional educations, he has received a variety of
trainings on health economy, social health insurance and political science
administration.
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Bahar Idriss Abu Garda is the Minister of Health and Population of the Republic of
Sudan. H/E Bahar has graduated in Business Administration with post-graduate
qualification in International Relations. He started his career in the private sector
ultimately he became general manager of International Trading companies that was in
the period 1999-2004. He is a political Activist for more than two decades and
negotiator in multiple peace deals. Moreover Bahar is an Equality advocate and
committed to the equity principles since he was an opposition leader and revolutionist.
After being appointed as Minister of health in Sudan he used the opportunity to
materialize that commitment in the Sudan Health System and Health Policies.
Muhammad Ayub Sheikh, currently serving as Secretary Ministry of National Health
Services, Regulations and Coordination is one of the top civil servants of the country
with a distinguished career spanning over 31 years. He belongs to the prestigious
Pakistan Administrative Services and has held key administrative, management and
judicial positions in his accomplished career. Among the key positions held by Mr.
Sheikh are Chairman of the Employees Old age Benefit Institution, Member Judicial,Board of Revenue Sindh, Secretary I&G, Services and General Administration
Department, Govt of Sindh. From 2006 to 2008, he served as Secretary to Chief
Minister Sindh, Being the Head of the complete secretariat of the Chief Minister. His responsibilities
included coordination on behalf of the Chief Minister with federal, other Provincial Governments, all
departments/offices of Government of Sindh, all local governments, member of the cabinet and
legislatures, foreign missions etc. He has also served as Member of the Sindh Service Tribunal
adjudicating cases related to service matters of Government employees. Between 2003 and 2004 Mr.
Muhammed Ayub Sheikh served as Special Secretary, Local Government Department, Government of
Sindh, a position responsible for coordination with all tiers of local government in the province. Secretary
Board of Revenue Govt of Sindh, Commissioner Sukkur Division, Deputy Commissioner Jacobabad, Sub-
Divisional Magistrate Larkana-Kambar were other important positions held by him in his accomplished
career. Mr. Sheikh is an MBA in Finance and Accounting, a law graduate and has completed theprestigious Excellence Leadership Course from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard-Boston, USA
besides a number of advanced leadership programs in Public Policy and management.
Andrei Usatii is Minister of Health of Moldova. Dr. Usatii is a medical graduate from
Chisinau State Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Republic of Moldova, in 1997
being awarded the title of Doctor in Medicine at the same University, for the research
on the peculiarities of family planning in rural areas. After graduation he served for a
long ti me respectively as a director, a deputy director and again as a director of the
Anenii-Noi District Hospital, Republic of Moldova. Between June 1998 and May 2001he served as Prime Deputy Minister of Health. From May 2001 to October 2003 Dr.
Usatii served as a Coordinator of Health Programmes at Swiss Development and
Cooperation Agency in the Republic of Moldova. Between July 2006 and October 2009 Dr. Usatii served
as a senior counselor at the Ministry of Health of Ontario Province, Canada. Before being appointed as
Minister of Health, in January 2011, Dr. Usatii served as the General Director at Republican Clinical
Hospital, in Chisinau, one of the main hospitals of tertiary level in the country. On 12 September 2012,
Dr. Usatii was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Regional Committee (SCRC), a
subcommittee of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe.
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The Minister of Health of Guyana, Dr. Bheri Sygmond Ramsaran, is a recognized
leader who has established strong national and regional partnerships within and
beyond the health sector. Minister Ramsaran first acceded to high office in the
national Ministry of Health in 1996, as Director of Regional Health Services. In 2006,
as Minister in the Office of the Minister of Health, or Junior Minister of Health, he
aimed at turning around the national health system and reinvigorating international
relations for improved results in health cooperation; and in 2011, he became the
Minister of Health of Guyana. Dr. Ramsaran has been a Member of Parliament since
1998; and prior to acceding to ministerial responsibilities, he served on the watchdog Public Accounts
Committee (PAC) of the Parliament. The Minister of Health of Guyana has also shown leadership within
the Caribbean Community. This was reflected in Dr. Ramsaran’s role as Chairman of CARPHA – the
emerging Caribbean Public Health Agency – at the critical initial juncture of its formation out of the five
pre-existing Caribbean Health Institutions. In the capacity of Junior Minister of Health, he managed the
network of Regional Clinical Services (including Indigenous Health and Medical Evacuations and the
recent construction of new and expanded Rural and Hinterland Health Infrastructure); oversaw Health
Education (including training) and functioned as Health Liaison (with special emphasis on the JointGovernment of Guyana/Cuba Joint Commission and expansion of relations with other overseas Centers
of Excellence previously not engaged; and representing Guyana at high level Regional and International
Fora). Guided and well-considered investments have demonstrated Minister Ramsaran’s leadership and
strong commitment to the principle of the right to health and its universal accessibility, especially among
the poorer
Awa Marie Coll-Seck became Minister of Health of Senegal in 2012, a position she
also held from 2001-2003. As Minister of Health, she initiated far-reaching reform of
the health sector in Senegal and engaged a wide range of government, civil society
and private sector partners in the implementation and expansion of public health
programmes. She mobilized strong political commitment within her country for health
to be rightly recognized as key to economic and social development, and she
successfully mobilized financial resources both domestically and from bilateral and
multilateral international donors. In between appointments, Minister Coll-Seck was
Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership a global partnership founded in 1998 by WHO,
UNDP, UNICEF and the World Bank, with the goal of halving the world's malaria burden by 2010.From
1996 to 2001, the Minister served as a Director at the Joint United Nations Programme for HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS). She has been awarded numerous professional and academic honours, including the Chevalier
de l’Ordre du Mérite de la République Francaise. After earning a degree in medicine in 1978 from the
University of Dakar, she served for nearly twenty years as a specialist in infectious diseases in leading
hospitals in Dakar, Senegal and Lyon, France. She is fluent in French, English and her native Wolof, witha working knowledge of Spanish.
Dorothee Kinde Gazard is Minister of Health of Benin, and has previously served
as a GAVI Board member. She is specialised in Parasitology and Mycology. She is
well known in the AFRO region as she has chaired the regional committee group
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for the fight against HIV/TB/Malaria and has played an important role in clinical trials on Malaria therapies.
She is aware of key challenges of the region and can influence health strategies. She can bring countries’
perspectives and voices during Board’s discussion when necessary.
Mariam Diallo is Assistant Director for Health, Food Security and Human
Development at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She served as a diplomat at
headquarters in Paris (Middle East and North Africa Department) and abroad
(Political advisor at the Embassy of France in Israel from 2007 to 2011, Negotiator
on Security Council issues in the Permanent Representation of France to the
United Nations in New York from 2011 to 2014). She is a graduate of the Political
Studies Institute of Aix en Provence.
Marcus Koll graduated as an agricultural economist in 2005. After his Graduation
he worked from 2005 to 2010 at the German “Center for Development research(ZEF)”. From 2011 on he started working for the German Government. First at the
“Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)” before he started working for the
“Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)”. Since 2012
he is working in the BMZ health division and is responsible for the topic “child
health” including all issues regarding immunisation.
Angela Santoni is an Immunologist with forty years of experience in biomedical
research. She teaches Immunology and Immunopathology at the School of
Medicine of the “Sapienza” University of Rome, where she heads the Department
of Molecular Medicine. She presently is the Scientific Director of the "PasteurInstitute - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti" of Rome, a private non-profit foundation
specialized in biomedical research. For several years she was a researcher at the
Laboratory of Experimental Chemotherapy and Immunodiagnosis, and at the
Biological Response Modifiers Program, of NCI-NIH, Bethesda. She is member of
several national and international committees, with specific expertise in Molecular Biology. She is a
member of several editorial Boards of scientific publications in Europe and the US, author in highly
qualified international journals, and guest speaker in several national and international scientific
congresses.
Javier Hernández Peña has been the Deputy Director General for Development
Policies in the General Secretariat for International Development Cooperation at the
Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation since 2012. Before this position,
he was the Deputy Director General for Institutional Affairs in the Secretariat of State
for the European Union. He has also had several diplomatic appointments worldwide
and was part of the negotiation of the Cotonou Agreement. Javier Hernández Peña
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has a degree in Law, specialised in European Community Law.
Eivind S. Homme serves as Special Advisor on Global Health, Section on Global
Initiatives at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2015, he concluded three
years of service in New Delhi as Norwegian Ambassador to India and Bhutan. Prior to
this, he served in Jakarta concurrently as Norwegian Ambassador to Indonesia,
Timor Leste, and ASEAN from 2008 to 2012. During his posting in India, Eivind was
Co-Chair of the Norway India Partnership Initiative, together with the Indian Secretary
of Health and Family Welfare. Eivind has served the Norwegian Foreign Service for
more than 31 years in different leadership positions abroad and in Oslo. In particular,
he has worked on international development issues and Asia. He has served as Press and Cultural
Counsellor at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington D.C., and as Deputy Head of the International
Secretariat of the Norwegian Parliament. A graduate of the University of Oslo, Eivind has additional
education from the United States and the Norwegian Naval Academy. He is a Commander of the Royal
Norwegian Order of Merit.
Wieneke Vullings joined the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in April 2014. She
serves as Senior Advisor Global Health in the Health and Aids section of the
Directorate General for International Cooperation and Trade. Her main focus is on
inclusive innovation and product development for global health and strategic planning,
monitoring and evaluation. Before joining the Ministry, she worked over 12 years in
the area of health, science, technology and innovation policy in the private sector.
First as researcher and later as lead manager of the global practice life sciences and
health at the advisory firm Technopolis Group. From 2007-2010 she acted as
representative for the Technopolis Group in Brazil (São Paulo).
Donal Brown, CBE, is Director, Global Funds, Department for International
Development (DFID), UK. Donal has over 25 years’ experience in international
development. He has lived and worked in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as
spending considerable time in the Middle East. Donal is currently Director, Global
Funds, responsible for DFID's policies, programmes, financial management and
shareholder relations with global funds and innovative finance in health and education,
and DFID’s senior representative in Geneva. Donal has significant experience in
corporate governance and strategy and sits on a range of boards. Donal has strong all round
development expertise, including in fragile and conflict-affected states having been closely involved in
DFID work in Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and Mali. Most recently, as Head of the UK
Government’s Joint Inter - Agency Taskforce, Donal led the UK’s overall civilian and military response tothe Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. Other positions previously held by Donal include DFID Head of Africa
Regional Policy and Programmes, DFID Director for West and Southern Africa and Head of Middle East
Department. Donal was also Head of the DFID Office in Vietnam. Donal initially trained as a veterinarian.
After a period in private veterinary practice, he joined DFID in 1990 as a Livestock, Health and Production
Advisor for Bolivia and Peru, where he worked on public health issues and preventive medicine
programmes. Donal has postgraduate qualifications in tropical animal health and production as well as in
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public leadership and management. Donal was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British
Empire) for services to international development on 17 September 2015.
Jo-Ann Purcell Is the Director of the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, and
Nutrition Division in the Government of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs,
Trade and Development (DFATD). Jo-Ann is responsible for leading and
implementing the department’s agenda on Improving maternal, newborn and child
health (MNCH) which remains Canada’s top development priority. Jo-Ann has been
in the public service for over 10 years and has occupied various positions within the
government, she has worked on domestic issues as well as international files. She
joined the formerly known, Canadian International Development Agency in 2006 and has served as a
spokesperson for the department and most recently joined the division after four years in the Minister’s
office as the Senior Departmental Liaison where she provide analysis and advice to senior management
on various issues. Jo-Ann has a Bachelor of Science, concentration in Political Science and a Bachelor
of Arts, Concentration in Leisure, Tourism and Society.
Katherine Taylor is deputy assistant administrator for the Bureau for Global Health at
USAID. She formerly served as the executive director of the Center for Interfaith Actionon Global Poverty (CIFA), a global health and development organization based in
Washington D.C. Katie worked for General Electric for nearly 20 years in a wide variety
of businesses, including its health care, transportation and mortgage units. A
multilingual executive, she has lived and worked in the Americas, Europe, the Middle
East, North Africa and Asia. Katie held a number of leadership positions at GE: in the health care industry
within GE Healthcare International as managing director of strategic market development and as CEO of
the GE Healthcare Mexico operation, as well as in other GE divisions – GE Corporate Business
Development and e-Business, GE Transportation Systems (locomotives), GE Americom (satellites) and
the GE Capital Mortgage Corporation. Before joining CIFA, she was vice president for International
Business Development for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Katie has a B.A. in political
science from Yale University, a graduate Certificate of Political Studies from the Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de Paris and an M.S. in international business from Georgetown University. She has two
children and a large extended family on both sides of the Atlantic.
Blair Exell is currently First Assistant Secretary of the Development Policy Division,
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia. Blair graduated in Economics in
1991 from the Australian National University and began his career in the development
sector in Cambodia and Vietnam in 1993 before joining former AusAID in 1997. He
has worked across policy, program and corporate areas in Asia and the Pacific
including the Bougainville Peace Monitoring group in 1998 and the Regional
Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands in 2004. Blair has been the senior Aid
representative for postings to Cambodia, Solomon Islands and Indonesia.
Olivier Charmeil was appointed Chairman and CEO of Sanofi Pasteur, the Vaccines
Division of Sanofi, in January 2011. Olivier, previously Senior Vice President Global
Operations Asia/Pacific and Japan, reports directly to Christopher A. Viehbacher,
Chief Executive Officer, Sanofi, and is a member of the Sanofi Executive Committee.
He began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions department of Bank of the
European Union, from 1989 to 1994. Olivier joined Sanofi Pharma in 1994 as head of
Business Development. Subsequently, he held various posts within the Group,
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including Chief Financial Officer (Asia) for Sanofi-Synthélabo in 1999 and Attaché to the Chairman, Jean-
François Dehecq in 2000, before being appointed as Vice President, Development within the Sanofi-
Synthélabo International Operations Directorate, where he was responsible for China and support
functions. In 2003, Olivier Charmeil was appointed CEO of Sanofi-Synthélabo France, before taking the
position of Senior Vice President, Business Management & Support within the Pharmaceutical Operations
Directorate. In this role, he piloted the operational integration of Sanofi-Synthélabo and Aventis. He was
appointed to Senior Vice President, Asia/Pacific & Japan, Pharmaceutical Operations, in February 2006.
Olivier Charmeil was born in 1963. He is a graduate of HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales)
and of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.
Laura Laughlin is Associate Vice-President, Vaccination Policy, Sanofi Pasteur.
Laura joined Sanofi Pasteur as Associate Vice-President, Vaccination Policy in May
2013. Her primary areas of focus are Polio and Endemic diseases. She is responsible
for the liaison role with GAVI and Global Health Organizations on behalf of Sanofi
Pasteur and Shantha, and has been a member of the IFPMA GVPWG since her
arrival at Sanofi Pasteur. Previously with Merck & Co., Inc. / MSD, Laura has adiverse experience in marketing, access/advocacy & general management in pharma
and vaccines. She led Regional launch team efforts for HPV in Central Eastern
Europe, Middle East Africa. Laura’s last position at Merck was Managing Director, North/West Africa,
where she was responsible for integration of the Merck / Schering Plough merger, with P&L accountability
for Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and West Africa. She worked actively across those countries for improved
industry dialogue with Government, including establishment of a recognized Industry Association in
Algeria. Laura received a Master of International Business Studies degree from the University of South
Carolina.
Adar Poonawalla is the CEO & Executive Director of Serum Institute of India Ltd.,Pune - SIIL - World’s largest vaccine manufacturer and India’s No.1 Biotech Company.
He holds a degree in Management from University of Westminster, London. He has
followed as well courses in Biotechnology and Management in London. In the year
2001, he became active into the day-to-day activities of Serum Institute of India, and is
now fully shouldering the responsibilities with his father, Dr Cyrus Poonawalla. His main
objective is to take the operations of SIIL at further heights by creating surplus
manufacturing capacities to meet the global demand for vaccines. He was fully involved
in getting new products licensed and prequalified by the World Health Organization for supplies to United
Nations Agencies such as UNICEF, PAHO. He is actively involved in the Research & Development of
newer vaccines such as Pneumococcal Conjugate, Rotavirus, and HPV with the aim to make them
available and affordable for the under-privileged populations. Mr. Adar Poonawalla has personallyinitiated and launched the Serum Institute’s Oral Polio Vaccine which has helped bridging the anticipated
demand-supply gap. He played a major role in the acquisition of Bilthoven Biologicals, a Netherlands
based Government Vaccine manufacturing company, with the vision to manufacture and make available
and affordable the IPV vaccine. Mr. Adar Poonawalla is Executive Director of Poonawalla Investments &
Industries Pvt. Ltd. and Poonawalla Shares & Securities Pvt. Ltd., as Trustee of: Serum Institute of India
Research Foundation, (recognized research centre by Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India and also by
University of Pune); Jehangir Hospital; Minoo Mehta Memorial Trust. He believes in global philanthropy
and has made donations of several millions of doses of our products to different countries. The donations
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made are already responsible for running 2 schools for the under-privileged students and one large
hospital which is ….
Juliman Fuad is currently the Production Director at PT BioFarma in Indonesia. Prior
to this position, he was a Senior Manager for Procurement in the same company. He
has been working in the pharmaceutical industry for nearly 25 years. He graduated in
the Department of Pharmacy from the Institute of Technology and holds a Master in
Operation Management, both obtained in Bandung, Indonesia.
Naveen Thacker is Director of Deep Children’s Hospital and Research Centre in
Gandhidham, in the Indian state of Gujarat. He currently serves as a member of the
India Expert Advisory Group on Polio (IEAG) and the International Scientific Advisory
Board of Voices for Vaccines. Dr Thacker is a past president of the Indian Academy of
Pediatrics, specialising in child survival, immunisation, vaccinology, polio eradication,
and computers in pediatrics and telemedicine. He has served on the GAVI CSO
Steering Committee since 2010.
Clarisse Loe LoumouIs the founder of Alternative Santé, a local Civil Society
Organisation (CSO) in Cameroon whose mission is to facilitate access to basic health
for children through educating mothers, creating contacts with existing health facilities,
and reducing drop-out rates of immunisation programs in various communities across
the country. She is a pediatrician with 19 years of experience and extensive
experience in low, middle and high-resource settings. She has a good knowledge of
public health issues involving child health and access to basic social services and 15 years’ experience in
advocacy at the community, national, regional and global levels. She is also familiar with the challenges
faced by local NGOs in African settings, and experienced in working with international NGOs. As such
she has been serving the Gavi CSO Steering Committee since April 2010 and representing the
constituency on the Programme and Policy Committee since October 2012. She has also been part of
the team driving the francophone CSO platform for immunisation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the Noordin Noormahomed Sheriif Endowed Professor and
Founding Chair of the Division of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University,
Karachi, Pakistan. He also holds adjunct professorships at several leading
Universities globally including the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins
(Baltimore), Harvard School of Public Health, Tuft University (Boston), University of Alberta, Sick Kids Toronto as well as the London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine. He was designated a Distinguished National Professor of the Government
of Pakistan in 2007.He is also the Chairman of the National Research Ethics
Committee of the Government of Pakistan. Dr Bhutta is one of the seven member Independent Expert
Review Group set by WHO and the UN Secretary General in September 2011 for monitoring global
progress in maternal and child health MDGs. Professor Bhutta was educated at the University of
Peshawar (MBBS) and obtained his PhD from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the
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Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (London),
American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences.
Samba O. Sow MD, MSc. is Director General of the Center for Vaccine Development
(CVD) in Mali and Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of
Medicine. A physician and epidemiologist, he coordinates epidemiological studies and
clinical trials on vaccine preventable diseases that inform governmental policy. His
research spans diverse vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases. He serves on the
Scientific Advisory Panel for Mali’s ICC, WHO’s Global Training Network, the
Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts, and on WHO-SAGE meningitis working
group. Dr Sow’s received the 2000 “Paul Laviron” Prize in Tropical Medic ine from the
University of Marseille and was Commemorative Fund Lecturer of the American Society of Tropical
Medicine & Hygiene in 2006.
Seth Berkley serves as CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Seth
Berkley joined Gavi as CEO in August 2011, as it launched its fiveyear strategy to immunise a quarter of a billion children in the
developing world with life-saving vaccines by 2015. Prior to joining
the Vaccine Alliance, Seth was the founder, president and CEO for
15 years of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the first
vaccine product development public-private sector partnership.
Under his leadership, IAVI implemented a global advocacy
programme that assured that vaccines received prominent
attention in the media and in forums such as the G 8, EU and the UN. He also oversaw the creation of a
virtual vaccine product development effort involving industry, academia, and developing country
scientists. Prior to founding IAVI, Seth served as associate director in the Health Sciences Division at The
Rockefeller Foundation. He has also worked for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and for the
Carter Center where he served as an epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health in Uganda. He has
consulted or worked in more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Seth sits on a number
of international steering committees and corporate and not-for-profit boards, including those of Gilead
Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Acumen Fund.
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Board members
Chair: Dagfinn Høybråten, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers (31 December 2015)
Vice chair: Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director-General, WHO (31 December 2016)
Representation Board member Alternate Board Term
Ending
1 Independent individual
Dagfinn Høybråten N/A31 December
2015
2 Independent individual Wayne Berson N/A 31 December2015
3 Independent individual Gunilla Carlsson N/A31 December
2017
4 Independent individualHer Royal Highness theInfanta Cristina of Spain N/A
30 June 2016
5 Independent individualYifei Li
N/A30 June 2018
6 Independent individual William Roedy N/A 31 July 2018
7 Independent individualRichard Sezibera
N/A31 December 2015
8 Independent individual David Sidwell N/A 31 December2017
9 Independent individual Stephen Zinser N/A 30 June 2017
10Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Orin Levine Violaine Mitchell
Until
successor
appointed by
Board
11World Bank Tim Evans
Rama
Lakshminarayanan
Until
successor
appointed byBoard
12UNICEF Geeta Rao Gupta
Shanelle Hall
Until
successor
appointed by
Board
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13 World Health Organization Flavia BustreoJean-Marie Okwo-
Bele
31 December
2016 (Vice
Chair seat)
Until
successorappointed by
Board
14 Developing countries: Anglophone
Africa
Seif Seleman
Rashid
Kesetebirhane
Admasu
31 December
2017
15 Developing countries: Asia Khaga Raj AdhikariEksavang
Vongvichit
31 December
2017
16 Developing countries: Middle EastBahar Idriss Abu
Garda
Muhammad Ayub
Sheikh
31 December
2017
17 Developing countries: Latin America
and Eastern Europe Andrei Usatii Bheri Ramsaran
31 December
2015
18 Developing countries: Francophone
Africa
Awa Marie Coll-
Seck
Dorothée Kinde
Gazard
31 December
2015
19
France/Luxembourg/
EC/Germany
Mariam Diallo Marcus Koll31 December
2015
20 Italy/Spain
Angela Santoni Javier Hernández
Peña
31 December
2015
21 Denmark/Netherlands/Norway/Sweden Eivind S. HommeWieneke Vullings 31 December
2016
22 Ireland/Canada/UK Donal Brown Jo-Ann Purcell 1 July 2016
23 Australia/Japan/Korea/USA Katherine Taylor Blair Exell 30 June 2017
24 Vaccine industry - Industrialised
Olivier Charmeil Laura Laughlin 31 July 2017
25 Vaccine industry - Developing Adar Poonawalla Juliman Fuad 30 June 2017
26 CSOs Naveen ThackerClarisse Loe
Loumou30 June 2017
27 Research & technical health institute Zulfiqar A. Bhutta Samba O. Sow31 December
2015
28 Gavi CEO Seth Berkley N/A
Until
successor
appointed