Seth Berkley, M.D.
President and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Seth Berkley, MD, is President, CEO and Founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a not-for-profit organization, operational in 24 countries, working to ensure the development of safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccines for use throughout the world. Berkley is a medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and international health. Prior to founding IAVI in 1996, Dr. Berkley was an officer of the Health Sciences Division at The Rockefeller Foundation. He has worked for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Carter Center, where he was assigned as an epidemiologist to the Ministry of Health in Uganda to help develop its National AIDS Control programs. Dr. Berkley has been featured on the cover of Newsweek and recognized by TIME magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" as well as by Wired Magazine as among "The Wired 25" - a salute to dreamers, inventors, mavericks and leaders. Dr. Berkley is an adjunct professor at Brown and Columbia universities, has authored more than 85 publications and frequently serves as a media commentator on health technology development, AIDS and global health issues. He received undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University.

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