Anil Soni
CEO, WHO Foundation
Anil Soni is CEO of the WHO Foundation and an innovator in global health who has worked for 20 years in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to expand health care access in low- and middle-income countries. Previously, he was head of global infectious diseases at Viatris, working across the pharmaceutical company to accelerate the availability of new treatments. Soni was closely involved in the early years of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, serving as advisor to the executive director and then founding executive director of Friends of the Global Fight. Later, he was CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, where he oversaw its rapid expansion. Soni has been a senior advisor to the Gates Foundation and Born Free Africa and currently serves on the boards of MedAccess and The Marshall Project.
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