Congratulations to CSIS' Lisa Carty

September 20, 2010

Congratulations to Lisa Carty, Deputy Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, on her appointment to the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN). 

Prior to joining CSIS, Ms. Carty served as Country Programme Coordinator for the Russian Federation for UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. From 2002 to 2007 she worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program as Deputy Director for Public Policy. Ms. Carty served for more than twenty years as a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Department of State.  Overseas, she has worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Russia, the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, and as the U.S. Government’s Regional Coordinator for Refugee Affairs in the Middle East.

As a member of the ACTPN, Ms. Carty will provide a public health voice in the committee’s advice to the President on U.S. negotiating objectives and bargaining positions in potential trade agreements.