Peter Twyman
Peter Twyman is a social impact leader with over 30 years of experience working on complex social challenges in the U.S. and globally. He is currently Deputy Director of Columbia World Projects at Columbia University, a campus-wide effort to support faculty, students, and social entrepreneurs to achieve greater social impact. Peter spent a decade leading NGOs focused on child welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa, first at Keep a Child Alive and then at Yamba Malawi. He also has more than a decade of experience working on U.S. government-funded global health programs, including 8 years at ICAP Global Health at Columbia, where he managed programs to support ministries of health in numerous African countries to scale HIV treatment and prevention interventions. He serves on the U.S. boards of directors of Yamba Malawi, Friendship Bench and UHAI-EASHRI. Peter is a graduate of Connecticut College and holds a Master of Arts in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.