Alice Albright serves as executive vice president and chief financial and investment office of the GAVI Alliance, whose mission is “to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunization in poor countries.” Thanks in significant part to the work of the alliance, the World Health Organization calculates that millions of premature deaths have been prevented, tens of millions of additional children have been protected by basic vaccines, and more than a hundred million more by new vaccines. The alliance’s goals include a 66 percent reduction in child mortality rates in 36 countries by 2015, introduction of hepatitis B vaccine in 72 countries by 2010, and raising an additional $4.5 billion to support immunization programs by 2010. GAVI is also known for its innovative, public-private approaches to building financial systems to support immunization programs and health systems in the world’s poorest countries. After graduating from Williams in 1983, Albright earned a master’s degree, with a concentration in international finance, from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
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