Simon Bland has over 40 years of international development experience straddling marine and natural resource management, development economics, and global health. He joined GLIDE in 2019 after six years as the Director of the UNAIDS New York Office. He began his career as a volunteer with the Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) in Papua New Guinea and then joined the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, working in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and led country programs in Russia, Ukraine, Kenya, and Somalia before covering health and humanitarian institutions in Geneva. He was chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria from 2011-2013, sat on the Boards of GAVI, UNITAID, UNAIDS, RBM, GHC and Malaria No More (UK), and was a member of the Forum on Public Private Partnerships within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington DC. In 2013, Simon was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors list for service to Global Health.