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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