Leadership | Population Council

Leadership

The Population Council is led by recognized experts in the population, health, and development fields. Our country directors lead the Council’s research and programs in the countries where we work. Our Board of Trustees—which includes leaders in biomedicine, business, social science, and philanthropy—oversees and guides the Council.

Executive Team

Julia Bunting

President

Harriet Birungi

Vice President of International Programs

Tony Dutson

Vice President for Corporate Finance and Administration

Thoai Ngô

Vice President of Social and Behavioral Science Research

James Sailer

Executive Director, Center for Biomedical Research

Patricia C. Vaughan

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Program Leadership

Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab

Senior Associate & Egypt Country Director

Adebola A. Adedimeji

Nigeria Country Director

Ashish Bajracharya

Deputy Director, Country Strategy & Regional Representative – South and East Asia

Angel del Valle

Guatemala Country Representative

Annabel Erulkar

Senior Associate & Ethiopia Country Director

Lisa Haddad

Medical Director

Beth Kangwana

Executive Director, Population Council Kenya

Michael Mbizvo

Senior Associate, Zambia Country Director, & Senior Country Advisor

Fatou Mbow

Senegal Country Representative

Julie Pulerwitz

Interim Scientific Director, Social and Behavioral Science Research

Ubaidur Rob

Senior Associate & Bangladesh Country Director

Niranjan Saggurti

India Country Director

Zeba Sathar

Senior Associate & Pakistan Country Director

Isabel Vieitez Martínez

Mexico Country Director

Board of Trustees

Darcy Bradbury, Chair Managing Director D.E. Shaw Group New York, New York

Edith Asibey Founder Asibey Consulting New York, New York

Zulfiqar A. Bhutta Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health & Policy; Founding Director of the Centre for Excellence in Women and Child Health Hospital for Sick Children Center for Global Child Health and The Aga Khan University Toronto, Canada and Karachi, Pakistan

Julia Bunting President Population Council New York, New York

Mina Gerowin Hedge Fund Managing Director and Investment Banker (Retired) London, United Kingdom

Pape Amadou Gaye Co-Founder Baobab Institute for Health and Development Senegal

Jonathan Kagan Managing Principal Corporate Partners New York, New York

Nyovani Madise Director of Research and Development Policy African Institute for Development Policy (Malawi) Lilongwe, Malawi

Wanda Olson Partner (Retired) Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP New York, New York

David Serwadda Professor, Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health Makerere University Uganda

Jonathan Shakes Head of Products Freightera Mercer Island, Washington

Theo Spencer Principal Spencer Environmental Consulting New York, New York

Jeffrey M. Spieler Consultant in Population and Reproductive Health (Retired Science Adviser in Population and RH) USAID Bethesda, Maryland

Fransje van der Waals Professor Global Health Education and Founding Director Health[e]Foundation  University of Amsterdam Medical Center Netherlands

Kaye Wellings Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London, United Kingdom

Carmencita Whonder Policy Director Brownstein Hyatt Faber Schreck New York, New York