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Anita Zaidi
President, Gender Equality Division, Gates Foundation
President, Gender Equality Division, Gates Foundation
Background
Anita Zaidi leads the Gates Foundation's gender equality work across the globe, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
She joined the foundation in 2014 and has led the Gender Equality Division since November 2020.
She directed the foundation's Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases team and its Vaccine Development and Surveillance team until November 2022.
Key facts
- Current title
- President of Gender Equality at Gates Foundationsource
- Joined the foundation
- 2014source
- Gender Equality Division
- Has led the division since November 2020source
- Caplow Children's Prize
- First recipient in 2013 of the US$1 million Caplow Children's Prizesource
- National Academy of Medicine
- Elected in 2021source
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