Gayle Smith is the former CEO of the ONE Campaign, and took leave from that position to serve as Coordinator for the Global COVID Response and Health Security at the State Department during the Biden Administration. She served 8 years in the Obama Administration, at the National Security Council and then as USAID Administrator, and prior to that co-founded the ENOUGH Project and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and led the Sustainable Security Project at the Center for American Progress. She served on the National Security Council during President Clinton's second term, and before joining government lived and worked in Africa for almost 20 years, working as a reporter and then for NGOs and international organizations. She proudly serves as a member of the board of the Skoll Foundation. And loves to dance.
