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Julian joined GAVI in January 2005 as the Chief Executive Officer of the GAVI Alliance. Prior to taking up the leadership of GAVI, Julian worked with UNAIDS as Senior Policy Adviser to the Executive Director. His career in global health has included work with both bilateral and multilateral organisations.

Under the leadership of Secretary of State for International Development Clare Short, he was Chief Health Adviser at the UK Department for International Development (DFID) from 2000–2004. Other key posts have included Regional Health Adviser for the European Commission (EC) in Zimbabwe (1998-1999) and health sector reform Coordinator for WHO in Cambodia (1994-1997).

Julian formerly represented the UK Government and donor constituencies as a member of the GAVI Board, and represented the United Kingdom as a founding board member of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. He is currently a board member of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).

Helen Evans was appointed as the GAVI Alliance's first Deputy Chief Executive Officer in June 2009. In this role, Helen is responsible for oversight of strategic planning and the performance and management of the Alliance Secretariat. Prior to joining GAVI, Helen served for four years as the Deputy Executive Director at the Global Fund to Fights AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Helen is an Australian who has had 30 years experience as a senior manager in health and social policy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Psychology and a graduate degree in Social Administration. Her career in health has included key posts within the Australian Government, including heading the Communicable Diseases Branch in the Australian Health Ministry for the first half of 1990s and heading the Australian Government’s Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health from 1997-2005. Helen has worked closely with AusAid, Australia’s development assistance agency, advising on HIV/AIDS programs in the Asia Pacific region. Helen represented Australia on the first UNAIDS Board.

Prior to joining GAVI in 2008, Nina directed the policy department at the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, a product development partnership focused on the development of medicines for tuberculosis. In this capacity, she led the TB Alliances efforts to promote adoption and introduction of new TB drugs, co-chaired the Stop TB Partnership’s task force on retooling and was a member of the Center for Global Development’s working group on demand forecasting.

Nina has spent over 20 years in international health. For seven years she directed the Soros’ Foundations global public health programme, which focused on a range of critical issues, including strengthening health systems, TB, HIV/AIDS, and programs aimed at vulnerable populations. She also worked in maternal/child health, first with the Population Council and then with AVSC International (now Engender Health), focusing on the introduction of new programmes and technologies.

Nina holds degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities, is member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the faculty of the department of population and family health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. She has served on the programme committees for Doctors of the World USA, Treatment Action Groups TB/HIV project, and the Open Society Institute’s Public Health Watch programme, as well as on the boards of the Stop TB Partnership, the European Observatory for Health Care Reform, AIDS Foundation East/West, the Open Health Institute in Moscow, and IGLHRC.

Mercy has been in charge of GAVI's Programme Delivery department (formerly Country Support) since 2003. She has oversight responsibility for supporting GAVI eligible countries to implement the introduction of new and under-used vaccines and strengthen their health systems. She has coordinated various GAVI work streams including the Hib study, which led to the creation of the Hib Initiative in 2005.

Mercy has more than 20 years experience working in policy development and implementation of integrated health services and immunisation programmes in developing countries. She is a medical doctor with a postgraduate degree in Tropical Paediatrics.

Mercy comes from Ghana. Prior to joining GAVI, she worked with the national immunisation programme and was also responsible for public health services at the district and provincial levels.

Joelle joined GAVI in July 2009 and brings a solid track record in global health advocacy, resource mobilization, public affairs and organizational development. She has spent the last 20 years in senior management of global health organisations, most recently as Senior Vice President at the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria (GBC), as well as committee member and focal point for the private sector on the Board of Directors of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Her previous responsibilities included Director of Advocacy and Public Affairs at the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, and US Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She also brings experience from Africa, where she headed medical missions in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia.

Joelle is a French national and holds a Master in Business of Administration (MBA) from HEC /ISA, France’s top business school; the Masters was completed at Stanford University.

Tony Dutson joined GAVI in June 2008 as Senior Director, Finance & Chief Accounting Officer, before taking up his current position in July 2009.

Prior to joining GAVI, Tony worked for three years as Vice President Finance at Elizabeth Arden International, based at their international hseadquarters in Geneva, with Finance geographic responsibility for their “International” Region (the World excluding North America). He also worked for Eastman Kodak for nearly 16 years in various Finance and Commercial management positions across a variety of locations including the UK, Western and Eastern Europe. Project work also involved extended time in Dubai and Sweden, as well as working in Paris, France in the early 1990s.

Tony has a BA (Hons) in Business Studies from the United Kingdom, is a UK Qualified Accountant (FCMA) and has been living in Switzerland for the past nine years.

Tim joined the GAVI Alliance’s legal team in 2005 and is responsible for managing legal affairs for the GAVI Alliance through coordination with international organisations, including WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank, foundations, non-governmental organisations and Government development agencies. He also manages legal affairs for financing programmes, including the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) and the Advance Market Commitment (AMC) programme.

A qualified solicitor in England and Wales (2006), Tim is also a qualified US attorney, gaining his qualification with the Washington Bar Association in 1997. Between 1997 and 2005 he worked for Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, in Seattle, USA where he was responsible for transactional and advisory services to a broad range of clients, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Amazon.com, NASDAQ, 3M, Airspan Networks, Daimler Chrysler and multiple clients/charities focussed on the arts, film and music.

Carole joined GAVI in March 2008 as Director, Change Management. She worked also as interim External Relations MD. Previously, she worked as Counsellor at the UK Mission in Geneva, covering specialised agencies, health and humanitarian affairs. She was UK and Australia Board Member at the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, a Board Member for the UK of UNITAID, and worked closely with WHO, UNAIDS and other agencies.

Carole worked for more than 20 years overseas, in Nepal, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, covering Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique, mainly for DFID as a senior health adviser, and AIDS Adviser. Other posts included Director of VSO Nepal for several years, consultancies for multilateral organisations, and as a midwife on the Thai/Cambodian border.

Carole has a doctorate in public health policy, and qualifications in health systems management, anthropology, nursing and midwifery. She is also on the Board of the International HIV Alliance.