Sabeeha “Sabs” Quereshi is a senior global health and public policy leader with almost two decades of experience across global health, food and market systems, health and finance reform, foreign policy, supply chains, strategic communication, and national security. She has held senior roles at the World Health Organization (WHO), including serving as a regional emergency-preparedness and response-hub head for Eastern and Southern Africa, and previously served in senior technical and policy roles at the City of Chicago Mayor’s Office, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Rockefeller Foundation, the California Office of the Surgeon General, and the U.S. Department of Defense as a Biden-Harris presidential appointee.

Her work bridges federal, multilateral, philanthropic, and state governance, with a focus on systems accountability, equity, institutional reform, and resilience. A former adjunct professor at the GWU Elliott School of International Affairs, she was educated at Harvard Kennedy School, Marquette University, and George Washington University, and is currently completing a doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. She is a Presidential Leadership Scholar and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.