Mr Peter Sands
Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Switzerland
Peter Sands became Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in March 2018. Until 2015 he was the former Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered, one of the world’s leading international banks operating primarily in emerging markets. Previously, Mr Sands served as director of McKinsey & Co. After a distinguished career in banking, Mr Sands was a research fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, where he immersed himself in a range of global public health projects.
During Mr Sands’ tenure as CEO, Standard Chartered focused its corporate responsibility initiatives on health issues, including avoidable blindness, AIDS and malaria. He has also served on the board of the Global Business Coalition on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and was Lead Non-Executive Director on the board of the United Kingdom’s Department of Health. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a Masters in Public Administration.