Chris Elias

Chris Elias    (health bureaucrat)
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Creighton University, University of Washington
Member of	Council on Foreign Relations/Members, Global Preparedness Monitoring Board
Interests	population reduction
Doctor and Bill Gates protege, A Spreading Plague, Event 201  President of the Global Development Program In office 2011 - Present Employer Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  Senior Associate In office 1990 - 2000 Employer Population Council Later Event 201, Gates Foundation

Dr. Christopher J. Elias is President of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously he worked for the Population Council and PATH, He participated in the notorious 2019 Event 201 pandemic exercise.

Background

Elias holds an MD from Creighton University, having completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and an MPH from the University of Washington. He was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from Creighton University.

Career

Elias has worked as a senior associate at the International Programs Division of the Population Council, traditionally close to the Rockefeller Foundation, from 1990-2000. He was country representative for Thailand.

Between 2000-2011, Dr. Elias then worked as the president and CEO of Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) , an Seattle-based international, nonprofit organization, mostly financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that "advise and partner with public institutions, businesses, grassroots groups, and investors" in health matters. Their lobbyism ("advocacy and policy professionals") make sure policymakers, advocates, influencers, and citizens have the right support and information to "enact policies that bring health solutions to scale."

He is presently President of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He leads the foundation’s efforts to accelerate the delivery of healthcare products and solutions to the world's poorest people. The Global Development program focuses on 5 program areas: family planning; maternal, newborn, and child health; nutrition; polio; and vaccine delivery. A common theme of these programs is innovative and integrated delivery.

He is a strong proponent of extensive use of vaccines, in line with the thinking of his sponsor Bill Gates, where Elias pointed out the "The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is always looking to support innovative and creative ways to expand access to and use of vaccines.".

He is a member of the advisory committee to the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Elias was named the Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the United States in 2005. The Foundation is financed by Klaus Schwab, the central figure in the organizing of the World Economic Forum.

He serves on various advisory boards, including the Creigton University Board of Trustees; and the University of Washington Global Health External Advisory Board. He also represents the Gates Foundation as the chair of the Polio Oversight Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the chair of the Investors Group of the Global Financing Facility, and co-chair of the Family Planning 2020 Reference Group.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
2021 Monkeypox Tabletop Exercise				A 2021 biological exercise which (presciently) predicted the monkeypox pandemic which started in mid May 2022
A Spreading Plague	14 February 2019	14 February 2019	Germany Munich Munich Security Conference/2019	Tabletop simulation of a global biological warfare attack predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Included several senior pandemic planners. Held February 2019.
Event 201	18 October 2019	18 October 2019	New York US	A Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security/World Economic Forum/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored large scale simulation of a global coronavirus pandemic predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Held October 2019.
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2011	26 January 2011	30 January 2011	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013	23 January 2013	27 January 2013	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023	16 January 2023	20 January 2023	World Economic Forum Switzerland	The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"

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