Michael F. Maltese (Founder and President)

Michael Maltese conceived of GMK when visiting Malawi's College of Medicine in 2003. Michael was also a founding staff member of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT in 2007, serving as a Lecturer and then as the Center's first Managing Director from 2008-2009. Previously, Michael held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Fair Isaac Corporation, and Princeton University. In addition, Michael served as a co-investigator on a World Health Organisation (WHO) project that examined the effects of water development projects on select tropical diseases. He has published in the Osler Medical Journal (Johns Hopkins Medical School), British Medical Journal, Acta Tropica, and the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Michael studied at Harvard and Oxford and is primarily interested in global health, entrepreneurship, economic development and how IT can be leveraged to spread knowledge. In 2009, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Kerry Bowie (Vice President)

Kerry Bowie is currently Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Environment, Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Kerry is a recent M.B.A. graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management where he was a recipient of the Seley Achievement Award. He spent the eight years prior to business school at Texas Instruments in Dallas on various Facilities/ Environmental, Safety, and Health roles supporting semiconductor manufacturing. Kerry holds masters and bachelors degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively. Kerry enjoys writing, cooking, and traveling internationally, and his interests include renewable energy, environmental policy, and international & urban development. Bowie is married to his college sweetheart, Sherri-Ann, who is a physician-scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Eileen Yang (Treasurer)

Eileen is currently a program manager at New Sector Alliance in Boston, MA. Prior to joining New Sector, Eileen worked within the strategy consulting practice of a management consulting company, focused on healthcare and pharmaceutical consulting, and engaged on projects that ranged from competitor analysis, relationship marketing, and market entry assessment strategy. Eileen has worked with a nonprofit organization that provides free one-on-one or small-group English tutoring to immigrants in the community. The program offers several levels of instruction depending on each student's needs while arranging educational field trips and publishes a collection of the students' works. Eileen graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science.

Teun Dekker, Ph.D.

Teun Dekker is currently an Assistant Professor (Politics and Philosophy) at University College Maastricht. He completed his Ph.D. at Oxford University, and has continued his research at Yale University. His research interests lie in the field of distributive justice, and in particular the study of the concept of desert. In addition to his research, Teun is passionate about innovation and reform in Higher Education, and is a dedicated believer in the liberal arts tradition of education, which he is currently promoting in the Netherlands.

Alexandra Delano

Alexandra Delano is a Ph.D. candidate in international relations at Oxford University, where she also obtained her master's degree. After completing her B.A. in international relations at El Colegio de Mexico (Mexico City) in 2002, she was a 1-year Fox Fellow at Yale University, where she conducted research on Mexican and US migration policies. Her main research interests are Mexico-US relations, Mexican migration to the US, migration politics and State-diaspora relations. Her work has been published in Mexico, the US and the UK. She has also collaborated with the Institute of Mexicans Abroad and the Mexican Consulate in New York in projects related to Mexican migration.

Afreen Khan, D.O.

Afreen Khan is chief resident physician in the Family Practice department at Overlook hospital in Summit, New Jersey. She studied at Rutgers and earned her medical degree from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2005. Her areas of interest include women's health and preventative medicine.

Adrienne E. Shapiro

Adrienne Shapiro is an M.D.-Ph.D. student at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is currently working on a Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology. Prior to medical school, she spent two years as a predoctoral fellow with Dr. Anne Goldfeld (Harvard Medical School) and the Cambodian Health Committee, where her projects included work with HIV/ AIDS and tuberculosis treatment programs with an integrated microfinance component, development of a pediatric HIV center in Phnom Penh, and both basic and clinical research. She holds a degree in biochemistry from Harvard and an M.Sc. in Control of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her thesis research focused on malaria and helminth co-infection in Uganda. In addition to infectious diseases, Adrienne's interests include women's sexual health and health and education disparities both domestically and internationally.

Steven J. Simons

Steven Simons is a retired partner of Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA, where he represented non-profit and governmental entities in tax-exempt financings and other matters. Steven joined Ropes & Gray in 1974 and worked in the firm's public finance group until his retirement in 2004. He supervised the firm's tax-exempt revenue bond activity and worked on over 350 transactions as bond counsel, aggregating over $2.5 billion in total amount. He has participated in numerous credit-enhanced transactions, including transactions supported by letters of credit, bond insurance, and third-party guarantors. Steven served as bond counsel throughout New England in financings for bonds; revenue bonds; revenue bonds for educational institutions, including non-profit independent primary and secondary schools and colleges and universities; social service agencies; and health care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted and independent living facilities. Steve also served as bond counsel for "small issue" industrial development bonds and bonds for non-profit research institutions. He also counselled various borrowers, purchasers, and underwriters of tax-exempt and taxable revenue bonds. In addition, Steven is an active member in Harvard Law School alumni activities, chairing several reunions for the class of 1972. He holds undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard.