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George Jagoe – Executive Vice President, MMV
George Jagoe is the Executive Vice President for Global Access at Medicines for
Malaria Venture (MMV), a position he has held since August 2008. In this role, he
is responsible for leading the team that collaborates closely with MMV’s partners to
assure that medicines co-developed by MMV can be accessed by and have maximum impact on patients
who need them.
Just before joining MMV, George worked with AstraZeneca Spain for two years in the sales and marketing
of oncology and CNS products. Prior to that, he had been the first country director for the Clinton Foundation’s
HIV/AIDS Initiative in Mozambique, where he helped coordinate that organization’s support for the
first national scale up of ARV treatment. Before joining CHAI, his work experiences include healthcare consulting
(Chapterhouse), health system management (Kaiser Permanente, Aetna International), and microfinance
development (ACCION International).
He holds an MBA from Kellogg and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University. He organized the
1996 Students for Responsible Conference in Chicago while in his second year at Kellogg.
James M. Jones – Manager of Global Development Program, Exxon Mobil Foundation
Jim Jones is manager of global development programs for the Exxon Mobil Foundation.
In this capacity, he oversees the ExxonMobil Malaria Initiative as well as the
Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative.
He is formerly Senior Vice President at APCO Worldwide’s Washington DC headquarters, where he counseled
Fortune 500 companies on corporate citizenship and global health activities.Prior to work in the
private sector, Jim served as Vice President of the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, DC, and as the
founding Executive Vice President of The Vaccine Fund, now known as the GAVI Fund, initiated by the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation. GAVI’s mission is to immunize all of the children in the world’s poorest 75
countries.
For a dozen years, Jim served in various capacities in the U.S. Congress, including director of communications
and policy to Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts. During these years in public service, Jim became
known as a strong proponent of increasing federal funding for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria prevention,
research, treatment and care, and other global health causes.
Jim attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate and he holds graduate degrees from Oxford
University. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Munich. A native New Yorker, Jim currently
serves on the boards of a number of national and local non-profit organizations.
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