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 foundation. He led the foundation’s strategy development for engagement with India. He was one of the architects of the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria, an innovative approach to ensure broader access to effective malaria treatment. He also led a variety of efforts to optimize our product development portfolio and to characterize the critical path for the introduction of several life-saving technologies.
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.