GAVI Board Chair Dagfinn Høybråten said the appointment of three women to the GAVI Alliance Board “achieves a key target on gender.” Her Royal Highness the Infanta Cristina of Spain, Dr Maria C. Freire, and Yifei Li take up their positions with immediate effect. These appointments result in 11 out of 26 Board members being women. GAVI’s Board achieved its target of at least 40 percent representation for both genders within two years of approving guidelines at its meeting in July 2010. At that time, only 10% of Board members were women. “This new balance positions us as a leader on gender policy among international organisations. We make high-impact decisions that affect the lives of millions of women and children and it is critical that we as a Board are properly represented and have a diversity of viewpoints,” Mr Høybråten said.

Geneva, 13 April 2012

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