Who's who in #globaldev: October 2022 executive appointments

The United States has nominated Amy Pope to be the next director general of the International Organization for Migration. Pope is the current deputy director general for management and reform at the organization. A lawyer by training, Pope has been at the current role for a little over a year. Before that, she was a White House senior migration adviser at the beginning of the Biden administration. She will bring to the role years of national security experience following her time as a leading adviser with the National Security Council during President Barack Obama’s tenure at the White House. Here’s a look at other high-level job moves, leadership changes, and executive appointments in global development during October. NGOs Anuradha Gupta has joined the Sabin Vaccine Institute as president of global immunization. She spent the last 8 years of her career as deputy CEO at Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, or Gavi. Mirjana Spoljaric Egger has taken up her role as president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. She had been at the United Nations prior to this as the assistant secretary-general, assistant administrator of the U.N. Development Programme. Kitty Arie is the new CEO at Results UK. She spent six years at Save the Children International in various capacities, the last of which was as interim global campaigns, advocacy and communications director. Equality Now has signed up Sharmila “Mona” Sinha as their new global executive director. She will take up her full duties in January 2023. Sundaa Bridgett-Jones has joined The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet as vice president and chief partnerships and advocacy officer after a decade at the Rockefeller Foundation. Jeremy Konyndyk will take over as the next president of Refugees International. He was previously the executive director of the USAID COVID-19 Task Force and a senior adviser to the United States Agency for International Development administrator. United Nations UNAIDS has appointed two new deputy executive directors. Angeli Achrekar will be deputy executive director for the Programme Branch. She is currently the principal deputy U.S. Global AIDS coordinator at the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. Christine Stegling will be deputy executive director for the Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge Branch. She is currently executive director of Frontline AIDS. Finance Asif Saleh will become a director at bKash Limited, a financial services outfit in Bangladesh, after nearly 12 years occupying various senior roles at BRAC. Pablo Saavedra took up his position as the World Bank’s vice president for equitable growth, finance and institutions. Saavedra, a Bolivian national and a long-term official at the multilateral bank, was most recently the chief of staff of the World Bank Group. The African Development Bank appointed Hassatou Diop N’Sele as vice president for finance and chief financial officer. Health Pamela Hamamoto will be the lead U.S. pandemic negotiator for the World Health Organization’s pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response proposed accord. She comes to the role after spending the last few years as U.S. permanent representative to the office of the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva. Alain Labrique was appointed as director of the Department of Digital Health and Innovation at the World Health Organization. Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance and John Nkengasong, U.S. global AIDS coordinator and special representative for global health diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State, have been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine along with other experts in global health and medicine. Partners In Health has appointed co-founder and former World Bank president Jim Yong Kim as chancellor of the Rwanda-based University of Global Health Equity, a position previously occupied by his friend and PIH co-founder, Paul Farmer. He is currently the vice chairman and partner at Global Infrastructure Partners.