Khadija Rejto

Khadija Rejto has spent 25 years working at the intersection of public health, philanthropy, and policy—across foundations, corporations, UN agencies, NGOs, and academic institutions. She currently serves as Chair of Global Health at the Atria Research and Global Health Institute, where she embeds equitable access and public health at the core of the institute’s research and clinical innovation agenda, while building the structural platforms and multi-sector coalitions needed to translate scientific discovery into impact at scale.

She co-founded Solutions International Advisors and served as CEO for over 15 years, working with ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and corporate partners on philanthropy strategy, impact investment, and evaluation.

Across sectors and geographies, Rejto has focused on what moves people out of poverty, access to health, education, and the capital needed to build livelihoods. Her work spans humanitarian response, social investment, and accountable governance, with a consistent emphasis on making resources reach the people and communities they are meant to serve. This includes directing a $36 million social investment portfolio concentrated on poverty alleviation, health, and education, and building a global donor network for a leading international medical relief organization.

Rejto has held senior roles spanning policy, technology, and public health. As Global Head of Policy and Government Affairs at The Commons Project Foundation, where she also served as Trustee, she drove the regulatory and interoperability agenda that determined whether health data could flow equitably across systems and borders. Concurrently serving as Managing Director for the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, she worked directly with ministers, senior government officials, and multilateral organizations including the World Economic Forum to make that agenda operational across geographies.

Earlier, at the World Health Organization, she served as Program Officer, coordinating multi-stakeholder coalitions across natural disasters and complex emergencies and engaging senior officials across member states on both crisis response and longer-term health policy. She also revived WHO’s health diplomacy program, rebuilding it around the premise that health access can open political doors that conventional diplomacy cannot.

In the private sector, Khadija created the sustainability and social responsibility function at a major publicly traded American apparel company—its first role of this kind—integrating sustainability standards into global sourcing and operations and engaging the workforce across the company.

Khadija serves on the NYC AI Nexus Advisory Board and is a member of the International Board of Advisors of Global Dignity. Her commitment to planetary health extends to conservation: she serves as a Trustee of Wild Lives Earth (UK) and previously served on the Board of Save the Chimps, where she chaired the Human Resources Committee. She has also chaired a private Swiss family foundation, served on the Board of Mission Restore, and was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where she sat on the Program Committee.