Marijke Wijnroks is interim executive director of the Global Fund after serving as chief of staff from 2013-2017. Previously, Dr. Wijnroks was ambassador for HIV/AIDS and deputy director of social development in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands. Dr. Wijnroks began her career as a field doctor in Sudan with Médecins Sans Frontières, earned a medical degree from Maastricht University and a tropical health and medicine degree from the Institute for Tropical Medicine.