Austin Arinze Obiefuna is the board vice-chair of the Stop TB Partnership and the executive director of Afro Global Alliance. He also leads the regional TB network Africa Coalition on TB. He is a WHO consultant and a member of the WHO AFRO Regional Green Light Committee. He previously served as the chair of the Global Network of Stop TB Partnerships and represented Africa on the executive board of the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease. He was instrumental in forming the Nigeria Stop TB Partnership and several other TB partnerships around the world.