Ms Joy Phumaphi

Ms. Joy Phumaphi, Executive Secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) and Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent, is currently the Executive Secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, an alliance of 49 African Heads of State and Government. In this position, she has overseen the introduction of an accountability and action mechanism, for malaria, women’s and child health across the African continent. She was a member of the UN High-Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises; and has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on Economics and as a UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. 

Ms. Phumaphi served the People of Botswana as Principal Local Government Auditor and subsequently as a Member of Parliament holding portfolios for Lands and Housing, where she introduced the country’s first housing policy requiring that local authorities house all destitute people, and then for Health, where she introduced the first public sector universal ARV program in the developing world. She later joined the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Assistant Director-General for Family and Community Health and was responsible for the 2005 World Health Report, “Making Every Mother and Every Child Count”. She has also served as Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank where she oversaw a dramatic expansion of the network evaluation program.  

Ms. Phumaphi sits on the Board of several international organizations and is an advisor to a  number of global health initiatives. She has been a key player in pioneering health initiatives such as The International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIM), Advance Market Commitment (AMC) and the independent accountability group for Every Woman Every Child.