Simon Kingston

formal public health authorities. Was that always your intention or is that something you learned as the initiative unfolded?

formal public health authorities. Was that always your intention or is that something you learned as the initiative unfolded?

And as we've mentioned before, that gave you a kind of an authority to engage in a whole series of other areas of the global public health architecture, as people refer to it. And we've talked about UNAIDS, we've talked about Amphar. Let's talk briefly about Gavi. We've had the privilege on an earlier Redefiner's podcast of talking to José Manuel Barroso and indeed to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

And as we've mentioned before, that gave you a kind of an authority to engage in a whole series of other areas of the global public health architecture, as people refer to it. And we've talked about UNAIDS, we've talked about Amphar. Let's talk briefly about Gavi. We've had the privilege on an earlier Redefiner's podcast of talking to José Manuel Barroso and indeed to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

And as we've mentioned before, that gave you a kind of an authority to engage in a whole series of other areas of the global public health architecture, as people refer to it. And we've talked about UNAIDS, we've talked about Amphar. Let's talk briefly about Gavi. We've had the privilege on an earlier Redefiner's podcast of talking to José Manuel Barroso and indeed to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

So we know... Regular listeners will know a little bit about Gavi, but how did you decide where you were going to invest your time? Because there must have been a whole range of other places you could have placed it, including in the wider public health and social impact sphere. So why Gavi?

So we know... Regular listeners will know a little bit about Gavi, but how did you decide where you were going to invest your time? Because there must have been a whole range of other places you could have placed it, including in the wider public health and social impact sphere. So why Gavi?

So we know... Regular listeners will know a little bit about Gavi, but how did you decide where you were going to invest your time? Because there must have been a whole range of other places you could have placed it, including in the wider public health and social impact sphere. So why Gavi?

And it's been a privilege for us at Russell Reynolds to serve Gavi over a number of years. And one of the things that's really striking about it, even as you just describe it, is is it's a multi-sector alliance. This is a joint effort between governments, the private sector, civil society, philanthropists.

And it's been a privilege for us at Russell Reynolds to serve Gavi over a number of years. And one of the things that's really striking about it, even as you just describe it, is is it's a multi-sector alliance. This is a joint effort between governments, the private sector, civil society, philanthropists.

And it's been a privilege for us at Russell Reynolds to serve Gavi over a number of years. And one of the things that's really striking about it, even as you just describe it, is is it's a multi-sector alliance. This is a joint effort between governments, the private sector, civil society, philanthropists.

In a period when, to put it mildly, that kind of alliance is rare, and when sometimes the political and the social media backlash against Business apparently getting out of its swim lane and being involved in the delivery of public goods, social good, is so difficult. What's your advice? What's your advice to leaders now who want to do that, but want to avoid creating that sort of backlash?

In a period when, to put it mildly, that kind of alliance is rare, and when sometimes the political and the social media backlash against Business apparently getting out of its swim lane and being involved in the delivery of public goods, social good, is so difficult. What's your advice? What's your advice to leaders now who want to do that, but want to avoid creating that sort of backlash?

In a period when, to put it mildly, that kind of alliance is rare, and when sometimes the political and the social media backlash against Business apparently getting out of its swim lane and being involved in the delivery of public goods, social good, is so difficult. What's your advice? What's your advice to leaders now who want to do that, but want to avoid creating that sort of backlash?

I'm bringing that back to the traits that make a really good leader in that context. I mean, it's some time ago now, but you wrote an amazing book called What Makes Business Rock? And you identified in it a set of about 20 different leadership traits that you saw as being really critical traits.

I'm bringing that back to the traits that make a really good leader in that context. I mean, it's some time ago now, but you wrote an amazing book called What Makes Business Rock? And you identified in it a set of about 20 different leadership traits that you saw as being really critical traits.

I'm bringing that back to the traits that make a really good leader in that context. I mean, it's some time ago now, but you wrote an amazing book called What Makes Business Rock? And you identified in it a set of about 20 different leadership traits that you saw as being really critical traits.

In the context we've just been talking about, Bill, which of those traits strikes you now as being really crucial? If you were rewriting that and saying, I'm going to come up with a group of five or six of those 20, which would they be, do you think?

In the context we've just been talking about, Bill, which of those traits strikes you now as being really crucial? If you were rewriting that and saying, I'm going to come up with a group of five or six of those 20, which would they be, do you think?

In the context we've just been talking about, Bill, which of those traits strikes you now as being really crucial? If you were rewriting that and saying, I'm going to come up with a group of five or six of those 20, which would they be, do you think?