Monica Kerrigan serves as Jhpiego’s Vice President for Innovations and Technical Leadership, leading a multidisciplinary team to identify novel solutions and harness the power of innovations to accelerate progress in preventing needless deaths among the world’s most vulnerable women, girls and their families. Ms. Kerrigan brings together global and country experts, innovators and “unlike minds” from diverse backgrounds in public, private, technology and nongovernment organizational sectors to address intractable problems in reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health. Prior to joining Jhpiego, she worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 2007–2016, serving most recently as Deputy Director of Family Planning. In that position, she played a pivotal role in launching the London Summit on Family Planning in 2012.