Trustees

- Bai Bagasao (Philippines) is the Asia Pacific Leadership Forum (APLF) Manager in the UNAIDS Regional Support Team, Asia and the Pacific. She was formerly Founding Chair of the Board of PHANSuP, the Alliance linking organisation in the Philippines.
- Peter Freeman CBE (UK) is the Chair of the Alliance's Audit Committee. Before he retired from the Department for International Development, he held a number of senior positions, including Director of Multilateral Aid, Director for Africa and Director of Finance and Aid Policy.
- Callisto Madavo (Zimbabwe) is Chair of the Alliance Board. He trained as an economist and joined the World Bank in 1979. Between 1996 and 2005 he was Vice President for the Africa region, responsible for directing Bank activities in 25 sub-Saharan African countries.
- Nafis Sadik (Pakistan) served as Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, with the rank of Under-Secretary-General, from 1987 to 2000. A physician by training, she is currently the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.
- Steven Sinding (USA) was formerly director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation and is a professor at Columbia University. Prior to his time at IPPF, he was director of the Population Sciences programme at the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Jens Van Roey (Belgium) has long experience in health care at district level in resource-poor settings, and for many years has been active as a technical advisor on HIV/AIDS programmes at community, national and international level. He is currently Medical Advisor for HIV/AIDS to the Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign.
- Jacqueline Rocha Côrtes (Brazil) has carried out advocacy work with Brazil’s national AIDS programme, is a member of UNAIDS’ Programme Coordinating Board, a steering committee member of the World AIDS Campaign, and a member of Cidadãs Posithivas, a Brazilian positive women’s group. She is involved with the Brazilian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (RNP+), the National Movement of Women living with AIDS (MNCP+), and the Latin American and the Caribbean Movement of Women Living with AIDS (MLCM+).
- Jan Cedergren (Sweden) has worked in development cooperation for almost 40 years. He has been Director of Operations Department, OHCHR (United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights), Director General for International Development Cooperation, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Director General, Sida. Jan has travelled extensively in Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Carole Presern (UK) has more than 25 years experience in governance, management, international health policy and health in developing countries. She has worked for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the UK Department for International Development on issues including health and AIDS policy, human rights, policy development and managed diverse health programmes. She has been a UK board member for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and of UNITAID.


