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) 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) is Chair of the Alliance Board. He 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.
- 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.
- Fatimata Sy (Senegal) is Vice Chair of the Alliance Board. She is Country Director for Family Health International in Ghana, and has 20 years experience in development and public health programming including more than 10 years in HIV and AIDS programmes. She has worked both for USAID and the World Bank in Senegal and has considerable experience in design, management and evaluating programmes in several African countries.
- Kevin Ryan (Australia) is currently the volunteer project director of the global HIV education programme, ‘Positive Lives’ as well as a trustee of the HIV information charity NAM. Kevin was previously a partner on the international board of a leading London law firm and a past president of an international business association. He is HIV positive and combines a professional legal career with work as a volunteer lawyer with a variety of organisations.
