Amie Batson

Biography

Amie Batson is President of WomenLift Health dedicated to expanding the power and influence of women leaders in global health and catalyzing systemic change to achieve gender equality in leadership. Throughout her 30-year career, she has been a strategic leader in a wide range of global health organizations including most recently as the Chief Strategy Officer and VP at PATH and senior deputy assistant administrator for the Global Health Bureau at USAID. While working at the World Bank for over decade she led work on innovative financing mechanisms that unlocked billions of dollars in new funding for vaccines and health, and led to the establishment of GAVI and the Global Financing Facility. She held a joint appointment to WHO and UNICEF, where she designed and implemented UNICEF’s Vaccine Independence Initiative, a revolving fund for vaccines. Ms. Batson received an MBA from Yale University. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at CGD, a frequent speaker, and author of numerous articles.