Manisha Bharti

​Manisha Bharti is GHR Foundation’s chief of strategy and programs, a new role that she filled in early 2017. As a member of GHR’s management team, she  oversees the evolution and implementation of each of the Foundation’s program strategies. Manisha also oversees efforts to track, analyze and measure results and knowledge emerging from GHR’s grant-making and also leads on several critical foundation partnerships.
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Manisha was previously chief strategy officer of FHI 360, a leading global development implementation organization. She was a member of the executive leadership team and oversaw the corporate strategy, partnerships, communications and business development functions. Prior to her 11-year tenure at FHI 360, Manisha served a number of foundations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation, in addition to working at McKinsey & Company, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS and the Canadian Government.

Manisha earned two masters’ degrees in business administration and public health from Johns Hopkins University and completed an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree at Harvard University in social studies.