Deputy Director, China Country Office Head of Health and Innovation，Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Alex leads a team that works to build health partnerships with key stakeholders in China, including the Chinese government, private sector and NGOs. The goal is to identify, develop and deliver high-quality, low-cost health products (drugs, vaccines, biologics, diagnostics) for use in developing countries to tackle endemic diseases and other urgent health needs. Alex’s team also works with local partners to design and deliver programs that address domestic health challenges such as poverty, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, immunization and rural healthcare.

Alex joined the foundation in 2015 after 9 years at McKinsey & Co., where he was an Associate Partner and co-led McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice in Greater China, where he served governments, private and social organizations on strategy development, health system reform, operations transformation and investments.

Alex completed his undergraduate and medical studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and postgraduate diploma in Health Informatics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. From 2004 to 2005 he was Chief Resident at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital before completing a Master of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Alex is currently an honorary associate professor with the School of Public Health and the professor for CMED6910 – Strategies in healthcare. He is also advisor to and board member of a number of local and international public health organizations.