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

Ann K. Blanc

Vice President, Social and Behavioral Science Research

John Bongaarts

Vice President and Distinguished Scholar

James Sailer

Executive Director, Center for Biomedical Research

Patricia C. Vaughan

General Counsel and Secretary

Jackson Ireland

Vice President for Corporate Finance and Administration

Sarah de Tournemire

Vice President of Development and Engagement

Programmatic Directors

Thoai Ngo

Program Director, Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Julie Pulerwitz

Program Director, HIV and AIDS

Michelle J. Hindin

Program Director, Reproductive Health

John Townsend

Director, Country Strategy, and Acting Ghana, Mexico, and Senegal Country Director

Country Directors

Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab

Senior Associate & Egypt Country Director

Sylvia Adebajo

Associate II and Nigeria Country Director

Ashish Bajracharya

Associate & Cambodia Country Representative

Harriet Birungi

Senior Associate & Kenya Country Director

Alejandra Colom

Associate II & Guatemala Country Director

Annabel Erulkar

Senior Associate & Ethiopia Country Director

Michael Mbizvo

Senior Associate & Zambia Country Director

Ubaidur Rob

Senior Associate & Bangladesh Country Director

Niranjan Saggurti

India Country Director

Zeba Sathar

Senior Associate & Pakistan Country Director

Board of Trustees

Darcy Bradbury, Chair Managing Director The D.E. Shaw Group 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

Peter Brandt Stamford, Connecticut

Julia Bunting President Population Council New York, New York

Victor Halberstadt Professor of Public Sector Economics University of Leiden Netherlands

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

Lauren A. Meserve Chief Investment Officer Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New York

Wanda Olson Senior Counsel Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP New York, New York

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

K. Sujatha Rao New Delhi, India

Jonathan Shakes E-Commerce Logistics Consultant Mercer Island, Washington

Theo Spencer Senior Advocate Natural Resources Defense Council New York, New York

Jeffrey M. Spieler Senior Technical Advisor for Science and Technology Office of Population and RH, USAID/W at IAP World Services (Retired) Baltimore, Maryland

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