Adnan Kifayat is founder of Blueprint Strategies, LLC, and most recently served as the global lead for HIV therapeutic area for Gilead Sciences government affairs. He is an adviser to the Center on Economic and Financial Power of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He served twice on the National Security Council staff and as alternate executive director to the African Development Bank under U.S. President George W. Bush. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.