David Greeley

As AIHA’s President and CEO, Mr. David Greeley is responsible for setting and carrying out the organization’s vision; managing its programs, personnel, and finances; and increasing its visibility and resources.

Mr. Greeley has over 25 years of experience with international nonprofit health and development organizations and more than 10 years of experience in the private sector. Immediately prior to joining AIHA, he served as President and CEO of Accordia Global Health Foundation. As the flagship corporate responsibility program of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc., Accordia’s mission is to improve healthcare capacity in Africa. Over the past decade, the Foundation established and helped develop the now renowned Infectious Disease Institute (IDI) in Uganda.

Previously, Mr. Greeley served as Senior Vice President of External Affairs for the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), a product development partnership working to bring new tuberculosis treatments to the market. At the TB Alliance, he was responsible for resource mobilization, policy and advocacy, community engagement, and the integration of communications into the external affairs agenda. Prior to the TB Alliance, Mr. Greeley served as Vice President for the Center for Private Sector Health Initiatives at AED, (which subsequently became FHI360), where he managed a team of some 50 individuals and a project portfolio of approximately $35 million annually. The Center’s projects spanned malaria, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS, and operated in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.

From 1998-2008, Mr. Greeley worked for Merck & Co. Inc., first leading the public affairs, communications, and policy function for the Latin American division and then heading up the company’s global HIV/AIDS programs, policy, and stakeholder relations within the Office of Corporate Responsibility. Prior to Merck, he worked for Population Services International (PSI) for more than seven years. There he created the organization’s new business development department and led operations in India before being tapped to oversee PSI programming throughout Asia, as well as the business development department. At CARE, Mr. Greeley worked in Indonesia, Belize, and Niger in various programmatic and management capacities. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa, in the early 1980s.

Mr. Greeley has health expertise in HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, family planning, maternal and child health, and building healthcare capacity, as well as experience in public affairs, communications, policy and advocacy, developing public-private partnerships, resource mobilization, and program and financial management. He has travelled to more than 90 countries and worked in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States, including extended stays in Burkina Faso, Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, and Indonesia. He has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from Columbia University with a dual degree in Economic and Political Development and African Affairs.