Nils Daulaire was selected by Secretary Sebelius as director of the Office of Global Affairs for the US Department of Health's Human Services (HHS) in early 2010. President Obama also nominated Dr. Daulaire to serve as the US representative to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization, and he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2011. In these dual roles, he serves as the US Government's leading global health diplomat. Prior to his appointment at HHS, he had served for over a decade as president and CEO of the Global Health Council. He was also a visiting professor of global health at the University of Washington. During the Clinton Administration, Dr. Daulaire served as deputy assistant administrator for policy and as senior international health advisor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), where he oversaw an integrated global strategy encompassing health, population, hunger, girls' education and other social sector programs. He was the lead U.S. negotiator on health matters at various international conferences, including the Cairo Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing World Conference on Women, and the Rome World Food Conference. Prior to his government service, he spent 15 years in the field in low-income countries managing maternal and child health delivery and field research programs, in countries as diverse as Nepal, Haiti, Mali and Bangladesh, and has worked on program and policy matters in more than fifty countries encompassing every region of the world. A summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, he is board certified in preventive medicine and public health, has been elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine as well as of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has published widely in scholarly health and policy journals.