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

Ronald F. Geary

Interim 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

Programmatic Directors

Michelle J. Hindin

Program Director, Reproductive Health

Julie Pulerwitz

Program Director, HIV and AIDS

Country Directors

Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab

Senior Associate & Egypt Country Director

Augustine Ankomah

Senior Associate and Ghana Country Director

Ashish Bajracharya

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

Harriet Birungi

Vice President of International Programs

Angel del Valle

Guatemala Country Representative

Annabel Erulkar

Senior Associate & Ethiopia Country Director

Michael Mbizvo

Senior Associate, Zambia Country Director, & Senior Country Advisor

Fatou Mbow

Senegal Country Representative

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 The D.E. Shaw Group New York, New York

Terry Peigh, Vice Chair Senior Vice President, Managing Director Interpublic Group of Companies New York, New York

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

Julia Bunting President Population Council New York, New York

Mina Gerowin Non-Exec Director CQS Asset Management Ltd London, United Kingdom

Jonathan Kagan Managing Principal Corporate Partners New York, New York

Salim S. Abdool Karim Director Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa Cape Town, South Africa

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

Wanda Olson Senior Counsel 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 E-Commerce Logistics Consultant Mercer Island, Washington

Theo Spencer New York, New York

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

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

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