MALARIA CONSORTIUM - Key Persons

Edwin Godfrey is an experienced business lawyer, now retired after a long career with major law firms in the City of London, practising in the fields of international mergers, joint ventures, commercial contracts and government projects. He holds an MA degree in law from Cambridge University, and has held positions in the International Bar Association and the City of London Law Society. Edwin has also served on the boards of several organisations for the benefit of disabled people, at local, national and international levels. He is currently Chair of CBM Global, an international federation of charities supporting people with disabilities in the poorest communities of the global South, having served for several years as a trustee of CBM UK. With Mike Adams OBE, he was a co-founder of Purple, a UK organisation which seeks to bring together disabled people and the business world, and he continues to chair its non-profit arm Purple Conversation CIC. On the commercial side, he is a director of Clipeum IT Limited, a start-up venture in the computer services industry.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director of TropMed Pharma Consulting

Ian Boulton is Managing Director of TropMed Pharma Consulting (TMPC), a company specialising in working with public and private sector organisations working in the field of diseases of poverty (including malaria, TB, and dengue). Prior to setting up TMPC in 2008, he worked for nearly 35 years in the pharmaceutical industry across a wide range of disciplines. Twenty years of this were spent in Asia where he first experienced the impact of diseases of poverty and the fragility of the healthcare systems in many of those countries. Between 2000-2008, he was one of the leaders of GlaxoSmithKline's Diseases of the Developing World Initiative, where he was responsible for the development and management of GSK's strategy in malaria, TB, and other neglected diseases. During this time he was involved in several public-private partnerships to develop new, affordable, and practical drugs to treat diseases in low- and middle-income countries. For four years, Ian was a Board Member of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM), representing the private sector. Since leaving the industry and setting up TMPC, he has advised and worked on projects with WHO, RBM, Global Fund, Gates Foundation, London & Liverpool Schools, Medicines for Malaria Venture, TB Alliance, UNITAID, and other public and private sector organisations. Ian was previously a Trustee of Malaria Consortium between 2009 and 2015, and has been a member of the Finance, Audit, & Risk Committee since 2015.

Jane's background is in UK public service and international development, mainly in the health sector. She was a civil servant in the Department for International Development (DFID) - and then the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) - until 2021, most recently as Director for East and Central Africa. Before that, she worked in Uganda, Pakistan and Bangladesh and as Head of Human Development in DFID's Policy Division. She has represented the UK government on international health bodies, with a particular focus on health systems, sexual and reproductive health and rights, nutrition, and malaria. Before DFID, Jane worked in health research in the UK and the Gambia for the Medical Research Council, and for the NHS and the London School of Tropical Medicine. She has a BA in Biochemistry and an MSc in Demography.

Job Titles:

• Professor of International Health

Jayne Webster is Professor of International Health and Evaluation at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where she is also Faculty Research Degrees Director and Deputy Director of the Centre for Evaluation. Jayne leads a group of researchers at LSHTM called REACH - Research and Evaluation Applied to Complex interventions in Health. Jayne and her group conduct research studies across a wide range of fields including malaria, malaria in pregnancy, visceral leishmaniasis, family planning, immunisation, reproductive health, health systems, policy adoption and translation, and global health security. Much of her focus is on the delivery of interventions and evaluations of both the intervention and its delivery strategy. These evaluations use a wide range of methods, mixes of methods, and their novel application. Jayne has a varied background including establishing a basic pathology laboratory to support the local hospital services, in a remote area of Nepal; studies to support policy development of insecticide treated nets for an NGO in East Timor; and programme design, review and evaluation for bilaterals, UN bodies and NGOs, working as a consultant for the Malaria Consortium. She has lived in Nepal and East Timor, and worked for varied periods of time in many countries of Africa and Asia. Jayne has an MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries and a PhD in Programme Evaluation from LSHTM.

Michelle Pham is a senior lawyer with over 10 years international experience. In her current role as general counsel, company secretary and compliance officer she works on advising management and stakeholders on legal aspects including strategy, policy, corporate governance, and compliance matters. Prior to being in-house counsel, Michelle worked in private practice at international law firms in Sydney and London. During the course of her career, she worked with a broad range of cultures at all levels to achieve successful outcomes in various jurisdictions including Amsterdam, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Cyprus, Portugal, Greece, US, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan and Vietnam. She has held voluntary roles as the pro-bono coordinator at her previous law firm and also working at a refugee camp in Hong Kong for International Social Services. Michelle was motivated to join Malaria Consortium as a volunteer Trustee, by her desire to improve the lives of socially and economically vulnerable people across the world.

Job Titles:

• Director of the Malaria Research
• Professor

Prof Oumar Gaye is the current Director of the Malaria Research and Capacity Development programme in West and Central Africa (MARCAD); Former Head of the Department of Parasitology of the Faculty of Medicine of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD). He has coordinated research on malaria and several parasitic diseases at the level of the UCAD and the Ministry of Health of Senegal. He is the former responsible for PhD training in Human Biology and Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of UCAD. Professor Gaye has led major projects such as the new malaria prevention strategy in children named Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) and the use of ACTs and RDTs at community level, both strategies that have impacted on the decision-making of malaria management policies Professor Oumar Gaye is the Coordinator of the West Africa Network for Malaria Surveillance (WWARN), headquartered at the University of Dakar. He was a Scientific Adviser on Malaria in the WHO Regional Office for Afro and a member of the WHO / HQ Expert Panel on Malaria Management among other scientific responsibilities. Professor Gaye held the position of Malaria technical advisor at the Gates Foundation, technical advisor at the MoH for many years. He is a founding member of the Roll Back Malaria network in West Africa. Professor Oumar Gaye chaired the organising committee of the seventh conference of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) held in Dakar in 2018 and the organising committee of the 2019 DELTAS Africa Scientific Conference held in Dakar/Senegal. Professor Gaye is member of the National Academy of Sciences and Technics.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Chartered Management Accountant
• Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Sheri Adigun is Senior Commercial Finance Manager at the Wellcome Trust, overseeing International & UK Finance - the trust's largest portfolio. Sheri's career has spanned several sectors, with her ultimately electing to focus on finance within health around a decade ago - initially in the private sector. Thanks to experience gained as a funder sitting on finance committees in both Africa and Asia, she was motivated to join the board at Malaria Consortium as a volunteer trustee. Sheri passionately believes in fostering good governance in order to allow scientific progress to flourish. Sheri is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant. She studied law with Business at Kingston University, gaining an LLB.

Job Titles:

• Professor