Amy Lin, Acting Director of USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact, is Named Keynote Speaker for the Alliance’s 2022 Annual Meeting

The Bay Area Global Health Alliance is honored to announce that Amy Lin, Acting Director of USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact, will be giving a keynote address (virtually) on the direction of the global health sector at our Annual Meeting on May 16, 2022.

Amy Lin leads USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact (CII), which applies innovative, market-based, and digital health approaches to global health challenges. Previously, Amy was based in Mumbai with Monitor Inclusive Markets, developing social enterprise models to meet needs in low-resource settings, such as for clean drinking water in slums. Prior to this role, she served as the HIV/AIDS Program Director for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Liberia. Before CHAI, Amy was at the World Bank’s Development Marketplace, which focused on funding new approaches to serving the poor. Amy also worked with TechnoServe in Peru, creating growth strategies for microbusinesses. Earlier, she was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), advising multinational companies in the pharmaceutical, financial services, and consumer goods industries.

Amy holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a BA with Distinction in Political Science from Yale University.

Her talk, coupled with flash talks on the state of global health financing, investments, and innovation from leading funders and advocates, will be the heart of the Annual Meeting. 

Learn more about the agenda for the meeting and register here.