Edwige Fortier

Edwige Fortier oversees advocacy efforts to increase attention to and funding for four global health multilateral organizations that the foundation supports: the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the Global Polio Eradication Initiative; and the Global Financing Facility.

Edwige served as the advocacy lead for the sixth and seventh Global Fund Replenishment strategies and the World Health Organization’s 2024 Investment Round, and she coordinates the foundation’s Multiple Replenishment Steering Committee. From 2022 to 2023, she co-led the design of the foundation’s next five-year strategy for Middle East relations.

Before joining the foundation in 2017, Edwige served as the regional lead for the Community, Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative at the Global Fund. In that role, she oversaw six regional teams working to engage civil society organizations in the Global Fund’s efforts in communities affected by HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. Earlier, she worked on the Global Fund’s External Relations team as a civil society advisor and focal point for the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South and West Asia.

Edwige earned a doctoral degree in international development from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, focusing on Egypt and Tunisia following the Arab Uprisings. She is the author of the book Contested Politics in Tunisia: Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State (Cambridge University Press, 2019).