Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao

Marie-Ange has a 30-year track record in driving creative solutions brokering connections between public needs and private sector know-how and capital. Most recently, as the Chief Resource Mobilization and Growth Officer at Gavi, the vaccine alliance, her leadership has been instrumental in driving Gavi's strategic growth, setting key innovative finance initiatives and raising critical resources to provide equal access to vaccines for all. Under her stewardship, more than USD 43 billion was raised from a wide pool of sovereign and private investors to immunize more than 1.5 billion children. She previously held positions as a senior executive to the President of the African Development Bank, and within the World Bank Group (International Finance Corporation).Marie-Ange holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Economics from the French Business School ESSEC.