John Tedstrom

John Tedstrom President and CEO, Executive Office John Tedstrom is President and CEO of GBCHealth. John joined GBCHealth in August, 2006, and since that time has steadily expanded the organization’s reach, deepened relationships with key partners and initiated important organizational reforms to make operations more cost-effective and programs more impactful. Since John took over as Executive Director of GBCHealth in August 2006, membership has continued to grow and now includes more than 230 companies and organizations across the globe. John also led the organization’s growth from an exclusive focus on HIV/AIDS to an agenda that included strong programs on tuberculosis and malaria beginning in 2007. Under John’s leadership, the organization unveiled a broader public health mandate in June 2011. John has also led the expansion of GBCHealth's geographical reach through a merger with Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA), an organization he founded and led prior to joining GBCHealth. TPAA operated in Russia and Ukraine, two countries at significant risk for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. TPAA developed several highly effective programs that continue today. One of the major programs, the Russian Media Partnership (RMP), reached millions with information about HIV/AIDS and has a high success rate in spurring people to take action to know their status and protect themselves. The Russian Parliamentary Working Group on HIV/AIDS advances policy reforms relevant to public health. John served as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council from 1999-2000, where he provided policy advice and strategic planning for President Bill Clinton. He also managed inter-agency coordination on priority foreign policy issues in the region, with a focus on commercial, economic, and social policy toward the Newly Independent States. John worked for nearly a decade at the RAND Corporation as economist and senior economist. In those positions, he focused on the intersection among economics, development, and international security and he led the policy analysis work of the first presidentially-mandated National Defense Panel. John held the Jacyk Chair at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in 2000-2001.