President & CEO

Seth Berkley is the president, CEO and founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a not-for-profit organization working in 24 countries to ensure the development of safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccines for use throughout the world. He is also a medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and international health. Prior to founding IAVI in 1996, he was an officer of the Health Sciences Division at The Rockefeller Foundation. He has worked for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and for the Carter Center, where he was assigned as an epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health in Uganda. Seth played a key role in Uganda’s national HIV sero-survey and helped develop its National AIDS Control programs. He is currently an adjunct professor of medicine at Brown University and New York University and an adjunct professor of public health at Columbia University. He also sits on a number of international steering committees and corporate and not-for-profit boards, including those of Gilead Sciences, VaxInnate, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, the Acumen Fund and the Scientific Advisory Panel assisting the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. Seth has been featured on the cover of Newsweek, recognized by TIME magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" and by Wired Magazine as among "The Wired 25"—a salute to dreamers, inventors, mavericks and leaders. He has consulted or worked in over 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The author of over 85 publications, Seth has written extensively on infectious disease and frequently serves as a media commentator on health technology development, AIDS and global health issues. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University.