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Council Members

The Council brings together prominent individuals from diverse geographies and sectors with a shared passion for leadership & management.

 

 

BARBARA BUSH

Barbara Bush is Co-Founder and Board Chair of Global Health Corps, an organization that mobilises a global community of young leaders to build a movement for health equity. Barbara recently completed her Master’s degree in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently Executive-In-Residence at Schmidt Futures.

 
 

HELEN CLARK

Helen Clark is a former New Zealand Prime Minister and a Former UNDP Administrator. She currently Chairs the Boards of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health.

 
 

JULIO FRENK

Since 2015, Julio Frenk has been president of the University of Miami. Prior to joining the University of Miami, he was the dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the T&G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development. He served as the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. He was the founding director-general of the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, one of the leading institutions of its kind in the developing world.

 
 

WENDY KOPP

Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations that are developing collective leadership to ensure all children fulfil their potential. Wendy founded Teach For America in 1989 to marshal the energy of her generation towards expanding educational opportunity in the United States. Since 2007, Wendy has led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries.

 
 

MUHAMMAD ALI PATE

Muhammad Ali Pate is Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership in the department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was formerly Global Director, Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) at the World Bank and the Director of Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF). Dr Pate, a US and Nigerian national, is also the former Minister of State for Health in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 
 

DAN GLICKMAN

Dan Glickman is a senior counsellor and chair of the International Advisory Board at APCO Worldwide, board member and now a lead director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and senior advisor to the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. He was formerly the Vice President of the Aspen Institute and Executive Director of The Aspen Institute Congressional Program. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, he served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton Administration. He previously represented the 4th Congressional district of Kansas for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.

 
 

JAMIE COOPER

Jamie Cooper is founding Chair and President of Big Win Philanthropy. She has more than 20 years’ experience in bringing private sector, government, and non-profit leaders together to pursue innovative policy on economic and social issues. She previously co-founded the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and served as its President and CEO.

 
 

JOY PHUMAPHI

Joy Phumaphi is the Executive Secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance. She is the former Minister of Health of Botswana. Prior to serving as the Minister of Health, she began public service in Botswana as a local government auditor and went on to serve in Parliament and as a representative to the Southern African Development Community. Ms. Phumaphi was formerly Assistant Director-General for Family and Community Health at the World Health Organisation, and also served as Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank.

 
 

ManueL Pulgar-Vidal

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is the Climate & Energy Global Practice Leader at WWF. He served as Minister of the Environment of Peru (2011 to 2016) and President of the Twentieth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2014. He sits on the Boards of F20, Forest Trends, Amazon Conservation Association, and Peruvian Society of Environmental Law. Manuel is the chair of the evaluation council of the French sovereign Green Bonds and is a member of both the Advisory Group of the Center for Multilateral Negotiations and the Assembly of WWF - Colombia. He was recently appointed as Senior Ambassador of the Coalition for Urban Transitions and a member of the Aspen Institute Management and Leadership Advisory Group.

 

Jaime SaaVedra

Jaime Saavedra leads the Education Global Practice at the World Bank Group. He re-joined the World Bank Group from the Government of Peru, where he served as Minister of Education from 2013 through 2016. Prior to assuming his role as Minister for Education of Peru, he had a ten-year career at the World Bank where, most recently, he served as Director for Poverty Reduction and Equity as well as Acting Vice President, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Network.

 
 

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a leading promoter of freedom, peace, justice, and democratic rule. Africa’s first democratically elected female head of state, she led Liberia through reconciliation and recovery following the nation’s decade-long civil war, and the Ebola Crisis. President Sirleaf was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Peace in 2011. She is the recipient of The Presidential Medal of Freedom—the United States’ highest civilian award—for her personal courage and unwavering commitment to freedom for Africans.

 
 

Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo is the Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. After almost a decade with the Central Bank of Mexico he served as Undersecretary of the Budget, Secretary of Economic Programming and the Budget, and Secretary of Education before serving as President of Mexico from 1994-2000. He is a member of The Elders and Chairman of the Board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health.

 

Council Secretariat

 

Robert Newman

Robert Newman is a paediatrician with more than 30 years of experience in global health and development as a leader, manager, policy maker, epidemiologist, program implementer, researcher, and clinician. He is currently Director of AMP Health. Prior to that, he held roles as the Country Director for U.S. CDC in Cambodia; Managing Director for Policy and Performance at Gavi; Director of the Global Malaria Programme at the World Health Organization, CDC team lead for the President’s Malaria Initiative; and Country Coordinator for Health Alliance International in Mozambique.