Board of Directors

ONE’s Board of Directors includes individuals with extensive experience in advocacy and activism, policy, politics and business. The board oversees ONE’s work and helps to ensure we are making progress against our mission.

Aliko Dangote

President/Chief Executive of the Dangote Group and Chairman of the Dangote Foundation

Bobby Shriver

Co-founder, ONE & (RED)

Bono

Lead singer, U2
Co-founder, ONE and (RED)

Dr. Mo Ibrahim

Chairman, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Gayle E. Smith

President and CEO, ONE

Helene D. Gayle

CEO, McKinsey Social Initiative

Jamie Drummond

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Global Strategy, ONE

Joe Cerrell

Managing Director, Global Policy & Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation *

John Doerr

Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Joshua Bolten

President & CEO, Business Roundtable

Kevin Sheekey

Global Head of Government Relations and Communications, Bloomberg L.P. Chairman, Bloomberg Government

Lawrence Summers

Former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States

Mark Suzman

Chief Strategy Officer and President, Global Policy & Advocacy
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation*

Michele L. Sullivan

Director of Corporate Social Innovation, Caterpillar and President of the Caterpillar Foundation *

Morton H. Halperin

Senior Advisor, Open Society Foundations

Ronald O. Perelman

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc.

Sheryl Sandberg

Chief Operating Officer, Facebook

Susan A. Buffett

Chairwoman, The Sherwood Foundation and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation

Tom Freston

Chairman of the Board, ONE Principal, Firefly3

Africa Policy Advisory Board

ONE’s Africa Policy Advisory Board is a regular forum for many of ONE’s friends and advisors to come together to discuss the pressing issues facing the continent, and play a key role in informing ONE’s work in Africa and globally.

Acha Leke

Director, McKinsey & Company

Amadou Mahtar Ba

Chief Executive Officer, African Media Initiative

Angélique Kidjo

Grammy Award-winning Artist and Activist

Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane

Founder and President of African Monitor

Arunma Oteh

Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria

Bunmi Makinwa

Director, Africa Regional Office, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

David Barnard

Dr. Melvin Ayogu

Director, Human Enterprise Research Group

Dr. Richard Mkandawire

Vice President of the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP)

Dr. Xiaoyun Li

Chief Senior Advisor, International Poverty Reduction Center in China

Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin

Chief Executive Officer, Ethiopia Commodity Exchange

Erik Charas

Founding and Managing Director, Charas LDA

John Githongo

CEO, Inuka Kenya Trust

John Ulanga

Executive Director, Foundation for Civil Society

Mandla Sibeko

Founder and Chairman, Seed Capital Investment

Neville Gabriel

Executive Director, Southern Africa Trust

Nic Dawes

Editor-in-chief, Mail & Guardian

Owen Barder

Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development

Paul Collier

Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University

Romy Chevallier

Senior Researcher, Governance of Africa’s Resources, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

Russell Wildeman

Programme Manager of the Economic Governance Programme, IDASA

Susan Mashibe

Founder, Tanzanite Jet Centre

Warren Krafchik

Director, International Budget Partnership (IBP)

Zohra Dawood

Director, Zamyn Foundation-UK and Business Development Executive, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra

Leadership Team

ONE’s global leadership team helps to direct and implements ONE’s strategy.

Adrian Lovett

Europe Executive Director

Bob Pilon

Chief Development & Partnerships Officer

David McNair

Executive Director for Global Policy

Deb Dugan

Chief Executive Officer, (RED)

Gayle E. Smith

President and CEO, ONE

Jamie Drummond

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Global Strategy, ONE

Luis Guardia

Chief Operating Officer

Nachilala Nkombo

Africa Executive Director (interim)

Roxane Philson

Chief Marketing Officer

Tom Hart

North America Executive Director

* Serves on The ONE Campaign Board only and not on the ONE Action Board.