About the Author
Charles Clift is a board member of the Medicines Patent Pool, a Swiss charitable foundation seeking to increase access to medicines for people living with HIV and other diseases in developing countries. For a large part of his career he worked as an economist in the UK Department for International Development with experience of working in Kenya, India and the Caribbean.
From 2004 to 2006 he was a staff member of WHO. In addition to his work for Chatham House, he has been a consultant to WHO, UNITAID, the World Intellectual Property Organization, Wellcome and the Access to Medicine Foundation.
His research interests at Chatham House include counterfeit medicines, global health governance and financing, and antimicrobial resistance.