Geoffrey Lamb, President, Global Policy & Advocacy, leads a team that partners with public policy colleagues in each of the three program areas—Global Health, Global Development, and United States—to help build strategic relationships that are critical to the foundation's work. Prior to becoming managing director of public policy, Lamb was a senior fellow for the foundation's Global Development Program.
Before joining the foundation, Lamb held several senior development positions at the World Bank, most recently vice president of Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships. An Irish citizen, Lamb was born in South Africa and educated in South Africa and the United Kingdom, where he was a fellow and deputy director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.