President, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Deb Derrick is the president of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and expanding U.S. support for the Global Fund. A global health thought leader with nearly two decades of policy and international development experience, Derrick serves on the board of the NGO alliance InterAction, and previously served as a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and as executive director of the United Nations Foundation’s Better World Campaign. Earlier in her career, Ms. Derrick worked as a senior advisor at the State Department, on Capitol Hill and for the United Nations.