Ashveena Gajeelee is a public policy specialist with experience in global health and financial management. Ashveena supports GAiA’s action-oriented research which focuses on global public health challenges facing the world’s most vulnerable populations. Ashveena has worked extensively with African governments including several governmental ministries (Agriculture, Prime Minister’s Office and Environment) in her home country of Mauritius. After several years in government, she joined the Financial Services Commission, where she was the Head of Policy and International Affairs. Following the financial crisis, Ashveena was intensely active in working with Southern African Development Community countries to implement international norms in the financial services sector and ensuring compliance to fight money laundering and financing of terrorism. As a Fulbright Humphrey Fellow she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to research best practice of community development outreach and financial literacy. She was most recently the advisor to the Minister of Finance and Economic Development. She has a strong research interest in how public policy impacts access to medicine, artificial intelligence and pandemic preparedness. Ashveena holds an MPA from l’Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), France and a dual master from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPA) and the Graduate Institute of Geneva (International Affairs).

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