Girindre Beeharry is director of Strategy for the Global Health Program. He provides guidance to the Global Health Program on strategic direction, portfolio optimization, measurement, learning and evaluation.
Beeharry previously served as Deputy Director for Global Health Delivery at the Gates Foundation. He led the Foundation’s strategy development for engagement with India. He also worked on developing access strategies for product development partnerships and on accelerating access to new malaria drugs. He is currently the Foundation representative on the Board of UNITAID.
Prior to joining the foundation in 2005, he worked as Business Development Leader for immunization at Becton, Dickinson, and Co. Beeharry also worked as a Senior Health Economist in the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank from 1997 to 2002.
Beeharry read Economics at the universities of Paris-Sorbonne and Oxford. A citizen of Mauritius, Beeharry has worked in Latin America, Asia and Africa since 1994. He speaks Mauritian Creole, French, English, Spanish and a smattering of Portuguese and Hindi.