Christopher Elias

Christopher J. Elias is the president of Global Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2012, and the former president and CEO of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, also known as PATH, a nonprofit organization that improves global health by ensuring that innovations in science and technology are available to low income groups and developing countries, a role he held from 2000 to 2011. Creighton University, member of the board of trustees Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), member of the advisory committee to the director University of Washington, member of the global health external advisory board Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), co-chair of the reference group Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, member of the lead group (since 2016, appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon)

Recognition 2005 – Social Entrepreneur of the Year, awarded by the Schwab Foundation