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Biography
Peter Sands, Executive Director
Peter Sands became Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria in March 2018. Sands is the former Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered PLC,
one of the world’s leading international banks operating across
over 70 markets, primarily in
emerging markets. After a distinguished career in banking, Sands was a research fellow at the
Harvard Global Health Institute and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
at Harvard Kennedy School, where he immersed himself in a range of global public health projects.
In 2016-2017, Sands chaired the International Working Group on Financing Pandemic
Preparedness at the World Bank. In 2015-16, he was Chairman of the U.S. National Academy of
Medicine’s Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, which published the
influential report “The Neglected Dimension of Global Security: a Framework to Counter Infectious
Disease Threats” in January 2016. Sands is also a member of the U.S. National Academy
of
Science’s Forum on Microbial Threats and is serving on a Committee on Ensuring Access to
Affordable Drugs.
Sands served as Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered PLC from 2006 to 2015, having
joined the bank in 2002 as Group Finance Director. Under his leadership, Standard Chartered
successfully navigated the turbulence of the global financial crisis in 2007-2009, continuing to
support clients and counterparties throughout the worst of the financial stresses and without
drawing on government support
of any kind. Sands led Standard Chartered’s transformation into
one of the world’s leading international banks, reinforcing its focus on emerging markets and
driving the development of world-class product, risk management and technology capabilities,
underpinned by a highly collaborative culture.
During Sands’ tenure as CEO, Standard Chartered focused its corporate responsibility initiatives on
health issues, including avoidable blindness, AIDS and malaria. Sands served on the board of the
Global Business Coalition on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and was Lead Non-Executive
Director on the board of the United Kingdom’s Department of Health.
After stepping down from the bank in 2015, Sands has deployed his skills and experience in
international finance in global health. Sands has chaired and participated in a range of high profile
initiatives and has published articles on global health and epidemics in various peer-reviewed
journals.
His published works on global health include: “The
Neglected Dimension of Global
Security
–
A Framework for countering Infectious-Disease Crises,”
in the
New England Journal of
Medicine, January 2016;
“A
Stitch in Time saves Nine: Financing Pandemic Preparedness through
Domestic Resource Mobilization,” Global Health & Diplomacy, April 2016;
“Assessing Economic
Vulnerability to Infectious Disease Outbreaks,” The Lancet, May 2016; “Beyond
the Ebola Battle
–
Winning the War against Future Epidemics,”
British Medical Journal, January 2017; and “From
Panic and Neglect to Investing in Health Security: Financing Pandemic Preparedness at a National
Level,” World Bank, May 2017.
Biography: Peter Sands, March 2018
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Sands
has served on numerous boards and commissions, including as a governor of the UK’s
National Institute for Economic and Social Research, as a member of the International Advisory
Board of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, as board director of the Institute of International
Finance, and as a director of the World Economic Forum.
Born in the United Kingdom, the son of a naval officer and an artist, Sands was educated in
Malaysia, the UK, Canada and the U.S. He began his career in the UK’s Foreign Office and
then
joined McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 13 years in the London office, advising clients in
the financial services and telecommunications sectors.
Sands graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University with a First Class degree in Politics,
Philosophy and Economics. He also received a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard
University, where he was a Harkness Fellow.
Biography: Peter Sands, March 2018
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