Joe Wilson

Joe Wilson oversees strategic planning and operations for the Global Policy & Advocacy Division, which works to shape policy and mobilize financing in support of the foundation’s health and development priorities. He also serves as chief of staff to the division’s president and oversees the Office of the President.

Joe has also contributed to the foundation’s approach to advocacy, innovative financing, and organizational effectiveness in previous roles. He led strategy and operations for the Europe, Middle East, and East Asia team and the Development Policy and Finance team, and he was a founding member of the Innovative Financial Investments team, where he supported the development and implementation of new financing approaches.

Before joining the foundation in 2017, Joe served as a senior advisor in the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Center for Innovation and Impact, where he worked on partnerships and financing models to advance global health outcomes. He also worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Ethiopia. He spent the first decade of his career in the private sector, in finance and pharmaceuticals.

Joe is a co-founder and board chair of the House of Hope Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit supporting orphaned children in Kenya.

He has a master’s degree in international economics and development from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.