Edwige Fortier currently serves as the Head of the Global Health Multilateral Advocacy (GHMA) and Resource Mobilization Team within the Gates Foundation to oversee the development and execution of advocacy and resource mobilization strategies for the health multilaterals, specifically: the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Gavi, GPEI and the Global Financing Facility (GFF). She has served as the lead on the implementation of the last two Global Fund Replenishment efforts within the foundation. In 2022-23, Edwige also acted as the Head of the Middle East Response (MER) Team within the foundation's Europe, Middle East and East Asia Team (EMEEA). Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, she was the Regional Lead for the Community, Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative for the Global Fund overseeing six regional teams to further the engagement of civil society organizations in key Global Fund processes and previously with the External Relations Team as a Civil Society Advisor and focal point for the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South and West Asia at the Global Fund. Edwige received her Doctoral degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London in International Development in the Middle East researching Egypt and Tunisia following the Arab Uprisings. She is the author of the book Contested Politics in Tunisia: Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State (Cambridge University Press, 2019).