Alex Jakana

Alex Jakana is a program officer for Global Media Partnerships at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, Alex helps set up media partnerships for the foundation as well as manage a portfolio of media investments in support of the foundation’s global health and development goals in Africa, India, China, Europe and the US. Before joining the foundation, Alex was Executive Producer editorial partnerships at the BBC in London. Alex also worked for three different radio stations in Uganda between 1997 and 2004.