Joy Phumaphi is a former Minister of Health of Botswana; former Assistant Director General at WHO; and Former Vice President & Head of Human Development Network at the World Bank. She chairs the Botswana National Gender Commission and is Board Chair of the Rollback Malaria Partnership to End Malaria. She is co-Chair of the Global Pandemic Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), and the Lancet pathfinder commission on climate change and health. She sits on the boards of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the Partnership on Maternal, Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (PMNCH). She co-chaired the United Nations (UN) Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent.