Peggy Clark is vice president of policy programs and executive director of Global Health and Development at the Aspen Institute. In her role as vice president, Clark provides strategic oversight and guidance to the Institute’s 26 policy programs. As executive director, Clark leads programs promoting breakthrough approaches to global development including the Ministerial Leadership Initiative, designed to build the capacity of ministries of health in Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, and Nepal; the Health Worker Migration Initiative and its high-level Global Policy Advisory Council which led the adoption of the historic WHO Global Code of Practice; the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health composed of sitting and former heads of state and other leaders; and Transfarm Africa, which is pioneering new approaches to agricultural development and trade in Africa. Previously, Clark was the founding managing director of Realizing Rights, led by Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland.