Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate- Co-chair of Future of Health and Economic Resiliency in Africa (FHERA), Nigeria's former Minister of State for Health, Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of the vaccine alliance, GAVI. Dr. Pate is an MD trained in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, with an MBA from Duke University. Prior to this he studied at the University College London. He also has a Masters in Health System Management from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.

Prof.Awa Marie Coll Seck- Co-chair of Future of Health and Economic Resiliency in Africa (FHERA) and Minister of State to the President of the Republic of Senegal. As a specialist in infectious diseases and bacteriology-virology, MD, PhD, she was the head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar-Senegal, before starting her international career. As an international civil servant, Professor COLL-SECK was Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RMB) from 2004 to 2011 and Director of the Department of Policy, Strategy and Research of UNAIDS from 1996 to 2001.