Seth Berkley is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and was formerly with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Rockefeller Foundation before going on to become founder, president, and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. In 2009 he was nominated by Sergey Brin as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”
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Cet article s'inscrit dans le cadre de la réunion annuelle du Forum économique mondial
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