Dr. Steven J. Hoffman is Executive Director of Strategy at Wellcome Trust, where he is focused on day-to-day management of the organization, charting the organization’s future, and driving integration across the £1.6 billion that Wellcome invests annually in science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. He is also the Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair in Global Governance & Legal Epidemiology and a Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science at York University, founder of the Global Strategy Lab, and Co-Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance. Dr. Hoffman is an international lawyer who regularly advises governments and international agencies on legal, policy and political matters. He previously served as Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Population & Public Health, as Assistant Deputy Minister for Data, Surveillance & Foresight at the Public Health Agency of Canada, and as lead of the United Nations Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery. He is an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.