Joy Phumaphi, African Leaders Malaria Alliance

Joy Phumaphi has served the people of Botswana as Principal Local Government Auditor, responsible for all local authorities in the country. She subsequently served as a Member of Parliament holding portfolio responsibility in the cabinet, first for Lands and Housing, and then for Health. She was awarded the Stanley H. Knowles Humanitarian Award in 2003. During her tenure as Minister of Health, she launched the annual indoor spraying campaigns by personally spraying a few houses. Joy later joined the World Health Organization as the Assistant Director-General for Family and Community Health. She was responsible for the 2005 World Health Report, "Making Every Mother and Every Child Count".

She has also served as Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank, where she oversaw a dramatic expansion of the network evaluation programme, the introduction of health results-based financing, growth in the World Bank’s contribution to basic education, and the network’s extensive role in the expansion of social protection programmes during the 2007–2008 global food and financial crises.

Since 2010, Joy has been Executive Secretary, African Leaders Malaria Alliance. She is also Co-Chair of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, Co-Chair of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission on health in the zero-carbon economy, and a member of the COVID-19 Task Force on Global Health, Diplomacy and Cooperation.