JOELLE TANGUY
Senior Vice President for Global Programs and Partnerships

Joelle Tanguy is Senior Vice President for Global Programs and Partnerships of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC), a coalition of more than 220 international companies committed to the fight against AIDS and supported by offices in New York, Paris, Geneva, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Beijing, Kiev and Moscow.   

In this capacity, Ms. Tanguy leads GBC’s programmatic and strategic initiatives worldwide to harness the core strengths of business to stop the the pandemics. She also oversees GBC’s role as private sector focal point of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; guides the development of GBC’s Impact Initiatives and other partnerships; and coaches GBC’s work on Knowledge, Evaluation and Performance. 

A former IT industry junior executive in California, Europe and Japan, Tanguy left the Silicon Valley in 1989 to lead humanitarian medical relief operations in East Africa, Central Asia and the Balkans, often amid political and military turmoil.

In 1994, she became U.S. Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the international humanitarian organization that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.  After 2001, and prior to joining GBC in 2004, Tanguy helped launch and develop the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), a public-private partnership developing drugs for tuberculosis, the leading infectious killer of AIDS patients.

Tanguy is also a Visiting Professor at Bard College’s Program on Globalization in New York and has contributed to numerous publications on global health and human rights.

A native of France, she received her Master in Business Administration (MBA) from France's Institut Superieur des Affaires (HEC/ISA) joint program with Stanford University Graduate School of Business.