Vice President, Resource Mobilization

Dianne Stewart oversees IAVI’s fund-raising activities around the globe and is responsible for the design and implementation of a comprehensive resource development strategy.  She was previously the head of Board and Donor Relations at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, where she was responsible for managing relations with public donors, coordinating the Global Fund’s replenishment mechanism and implementing the resource mobilization strategy as it related to Overseas Development Assistance and government processes.  Dianne was also responsible for governance mechanisms and stakeholder representation for the Fund, coordinating its wider consultation processes, such as the Global Fund Partnership Forum. Before joining the Fund, Dianne worked for more than seven years in various capacities at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, starting in the Gender Unit and including assignments in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and in the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and working on various management reform initiatives. Her final assignment was within the office of the Deputy High Commissioner.  A South African national, she spent several years as a lecturer in English Literature at Vista University’s Soweto Campus (now University of Johannesburg), specializing in African and South African writing and participating in various community initiatives and student support groups. Her research area was women’s political autobiography.  She is the author of a biography of Lilian Ngoyi, the first woman to be elected to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, a book that was published as part of the They Fought for Freedom series to recapture lost South African history.