Trustee
Elizabeth is a widely recognized expert on international development and global health issues and has devoted her career to strengthening global commitments and programs addressing the needs of women, adolescents, children, and infants. Elizabeth is currently an Executive Director at the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN). As ECDAN’s Executive Director, Elizabeth coordinates with the Executive Leadership Council to set the network’s strategy, manages the Secretariat as they implement the strategy, and leads partner engagement and fundraising.
Before joining ECDAN, she served in senior leadership, management, and technical positions at the World Bank for 17 years. She also worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as Director, at Pathfinder International as their Africa Regional Vice President, and as Technical Advisor with USAID in Nigeria. She started her career in academia and served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Global Health.
Elizabeth is very passionate about addressing social inequalities and has been instrumental in establishing and supporting global partnerships, networks, and coalitions to break down silos and improve the wellbeing of women and children and other development issues. She has served on several Boards of Directors, including Save the Children International, the Africa Institute for Development Policy, and Concept Foundation. She has also served as a member of several global think tanks, including several UN Inter-Agency Task Teams. Her work is published in peer-reviewed journals, and she has received several service awards. She has a joint advanced degree in Medical Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics and Political Science.