Selected members of the Executive Commitee at the Coalition's October 2007 membership meeting, Washington DC.

Governance of the Coalition rests with an Executive Committee. The Committee, which meets twice annually, includes two Co-Chairs and the incumbents of 11 seats, all filled on a renewable or rotating basis by representatives of the Coalition’s member organizations.   

Co-Chairs:

Ms Margret Verwijk
Senior Policy Officer
Social and Institutional Development Department
Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Hague, Netherlands  

 

Dr Wolfgang Bichmann
Vice-President Sector and Policy Divison Health
KfW Development Bank
Frankfurt, Germany

 

Members:

  • Alan Bornbusch, Commodities Security and Logistics Division/Contraceptive Security Team, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington DC, USA 
  • Sadia Chowdhury, Senior Public Health Specialist, World Bank, Washington DC, USA 
  • Suzanne Ehlers, Vice President for International Advocacy, Population Action International, Washington DC, USA
  • Lester Chinery, Managing Director, ICON, International Planned Parenthood Federation, London, UK
  • Antoinette Gosses, Policy Officer, Seconded National Expert, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium 
  • Ben Light, Technical Adviser, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Brussels Liaison Office, Brussels, Belgium 
  • Scott Radloff, Programme Manager, Bureau for Global Health, USAID, Washington DC, USA  
  • Susan Rich, Senior Programme Officer for Reproductive Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA
  • John Skibiak, Director, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, PATH, Brussels, Belgium
  • Jagdish Upadhyay, Chief, Commodity Management Branch, UNFPA, New York, USA 
  • (Vacancy), representative of developing world regional network.

A 2007 amendment to the Coalition's Terms of Reference details the role and composition of the Executive Committee.