Steve Davis

Steve Davis oversees the foundation’s efforts to grow philanthropy across all levels of wealth from everyday giving to ultra-high-net worth donors, and purpose more of it toward inequities, including global health and development. He also serves as interim executive director of Gates Philanthropy Partners.

In addition, Steve is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a Global Health Faculty Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-chair of the G7 Triple I Initiative to increase impact investment in global health, and chair of the Advisory Board of the CSIS-Brookings initiative on advancing U.S.-China collaboration. He sits on the board of ZEEKR, the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute, Choose 180, and other organizations, with past service on numerous for-profit and nonprofit boards and commissions.

Steve recently served as a senior advisor at the Rockefeller Foundation, co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Technical Advisory Group, and a Distinguished Fellow at the World Economic Forum. His previous roles include executive advisor and interim director of the Gates Foundation’s China office; president and CEO of PATH, a leading global health innovation organization; director of social innovation at McKinsey; CEO of Corbis, a digital media pioneer; and an attorney with K&L Gates.

With degrees from Princeton University, University of Washington, and Columbia Law School, Steve is the author of Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism and speaks and writes frequently on topics related to social innovation, technology, and global health. He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.