The Coalition: The NGO Behind the Conference

Joining the Coalition makes you part of a high-powered network, a movement that’s joining the forces of the private sector with nonprofits, governments, and international agencies. Because with business support, expertise and assets, we can reach more people, more quickly, and more effectively.

Premier membership ($30,000) is available to companies and nonprofits who want to be at the core of the Coalition's work. As a premier member, you receive private consultations, complimentary admission to GBC workshops, high-level meetings and other events; access to a suite of online resources; plus access to special teleconferences with experts, policymakers, funders, and other leaders in health and development.

Affiliate membership ($5,000) is available at a lower cost, and is designed for smaller organizations. As an affiliate, you become part of our global network and get access to online tools and resources as well as teleconferences with experts, policymakers, funders and other leaders in health and development.

The Coalition was created in 2001 after Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, called for more business involvement in fighting AIDS and identified the need for a coordinating mechanism—which became GBC. The Coalition grew out of a smaller organization whose creation was spurred by Nelson Mandela in 1997.

Today, under CEO John Tedstrom, GBC has an expanded mandate, more than 200 corporate members and a strong and engaged network of government and civil society partners. Tedstrom has sharpened the strategic focus of GBC and has built up capacity to conceive and manage strategic collaborations that leverage the corporate and non-corporate reach of the Coalition.

The Coca-Cola Company chairman Muhtar Kent and Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, a corporate social responsibility pioneer and former chairman of Anglo American, serve as co-chairs of GBC.

Corporate members also include businesses like Accor from France, Levi Strauss & Co. from the U.S. and South Africa’s Standard Bank. The GBC network includes such critical partners as the UN, government officials in China, Kenya and Russia; and amfAR. GBC also manages the private sector delegation to the Global Fund, the world’s largest source of funding to fight disease.