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Geoff Lamb

Title Managing Director, Public Policy
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Geoffrey Lamb, managing director for public policy, serves as the foundation’s senior advisor on international policy development. He leads a team that partners with public policy colleagues in each of the three program areas—Global Health, Global Development, and United States—to help build strategic relationships that are critical to the foundation's work.

Posts By Geoff Lamb

The Other Department of Defense Budget?

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense mostly operate with very different roles and objectives. But there’s one important thing they have in common: a shared commitment to finding vaccines for infectious diseases like HIV and malaria.

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Advocacy – Critical to Our Strategy, Now More Than Ever

We are living through extraordinary times. The world is slowly—and unsteadily—emerging from the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. The fiscal contractions and challenges that have followed in its wake have serious and lasting implications for the poorest people whom the foundation and our partners around the globe seek to help. With resources as scarce as they have been in decades, nearly every challenge that our work seeks to address looks less soluble than it did even a few short years ago.

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