Executive Leadership Team

Gavi’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT) has been designed to provide the Chief Executive Officer with an agile and cohesive leadership forum, supporting frequent engagement among senior leaders and enabling stronger alignment across functions. Their responsibilities include:

  • delivering immunisation programmes;
  • managing grants;
  • shaping vaccine markets;
  • mobilising resources;
  • engaging and communicating externally; and
  • managing finances, operations and audit.

Secretariat leadership

Dr Sania Nishtar

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Pascal Barollier

Chief External Engagement, Communications & Advocacy Officer

Lucy Elliott

Managing Director, Audit & Investigations

Amy LaTrielle

Chief Grants Management Officer

Niamh Lawless

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Thabani Maphosa

Chief Country Delivery Officer

François Note

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

An Vermeersch

Chief Vaccine Programmes & Markets Officer (CVPMO)

Compliance Group

Gavi’s Compliance Group has been established to bring together leaders of functions that serve as the organisation’s ‘checks and balances’. This group plays a critical role in ensuring robust oversight, risk management, and adherence to organisational standards, and serves as an essential advisory counterpart to the ELT.

Andrea Antonelli

General Counsel

Hope Johnson

Director, Measurement, Evaluation & Learning

Brenda Killen

Director, Governance

Maria Thestrup

Chief Ethics, Risk & Compliance Officer

CEO support

Hannah Burris

Chief of Staff

Johannes Ahrendts

Director, Strategy, Policy & Foresight

Last updated: 3 Mar 2026