Michal Fishman

Deputy Director, Media & External Relations at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Michal Fishman leads a team that manages the foundation’s media relations and responds to requests from external audiences.

Michal has spent her career in policy advocacy and reputation management for Fortune 100 companies and national and international nonprofit organizations, including Malaria No More, the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Mastercard.

Before assuming her current role, Michal held several roles leading communications roles at the foundation’s program and advocacy work in polio eradication, malaria eradication, and pandemic preparedness and response. While working with the global malaria community, she helped mobilize global action to integrate a gender lens into the malaria fight.

Michal earned a B.A. from Tulane University’s Newcomb College and studied for a year at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.


Timeline

  • Deputy Director, Media & External Relations

    Current role