Janet Zhou

Janet Zhou leads the foundation’s efforts to advance gender quality through data, insights, and digital connectivity and also advises the teams within the Global Health and Gender Equality divisions on developing and implementing their strategies.

Since joining the foundation in 2013, Janet has held several leadership positions in strategy and operations, working on women’s health, child health, and infectious diseases. She developed strategies for the Family Planning, Malaria, and Maternal, Newborn Child Nutrition & Health teams and led the development of cross-team strategies on topics including antimicrobial resistance, disease surveillance and impact, and performance management.

Prior to joining the foundation, Janet worked at Boston Consulting Group on topics ranging from climate change to health care and technology. She also spent time as a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she modeled the impact of health care reform in the United States, and as an independent consultant for REDF, a venture philanthropy that invests in social entrepreneurs.

Janet has a B.S. in management science from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.