Gabriel Jaramillo

Gabriel Jaramillo is the General Manager of the Global Fund, a position created in 2012 to implement a process of transformation, as the Global Fund accelerates the fight against the three pandemics by focusing on better financial and risk management to deliver impeccable grant management.

Mr. Jaramillo, a former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sovereign Bank, has more than 35 years of experience in the financial sector, and more than 20 years as a chief executive officer, winning recognition as a highly skilled leader with extensive experience managing change in complex financial institutions.

After retiring from the private sector in 2011, he served as a Special Advisor to the Office of the Special Envoy for Malaria of the Secretary General of the United Nations. He also served as a Member of a High Level Panel that looked at the Global Fund’s fiduciary controls and oversight mechanisms, and recommended changes to risk management, governance and oversight to ensure the institution can manage donor resources efficiently and help implement disease prevention and treatment effectively.

When the Board of the Global Fund met in November, 2011, and approved a plan of transformation, it decided to appoint a General Manager to put a new strategy into action, and invited Mr. Jaramillo to serve in that position. He agreed to serve for one year, and began work on 6 February, 2012. He reports to the Board.

Mr. Jaramillo is a native of Colombia, and a Brazilian citizen. He studied at California State University, earning a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree. Over the next three decades, he excelled as a manager at Citibank and Banco Santander, among other institutions. He completed a distinguished career at Sovereign Bank, where he became Chairman and CEO in 2009. He retired as CEO in January 2011, and remained as Chairman until June 2011.