Alexander Schulze

Alex has worked in international cooperation for over 20 years, with experience in a public donor agency and corporate philanthropy. Before joining Fondation Botnar, he headed the Global Health division of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and previously led strategic functions at the Novartis Foundation. His areas of expertise are health system quality, in particular equitable access to health services and products, sustainable health financing, social protection, and private sector engagement for health. He has also extensive experience with strategy formulation and implementation including portfolio development and management. Alex holds a PhD in Development Sociology from the University of Bayreuth in Germany and a Post-graduate Diploma in Development Cooperation from Zurich’s Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He has previously been member of The Global Fund’s Ethics and Governance Committee, the Advisory Council to the Lancet Global Health Commission on High-Quality Health Systems and Co-Chair of the Global Network for Health Financing and Social Protection, P4H.