Bill Steiger serves as a Senior Advisor for International Affairs at Leavitt Partners. Until recently, he was Special Assistant to the Secretary for International Affairs and the Director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

During his eight years as Director of the HHS Office of Global Health Affairs, Mr. Steiger advised the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on global health, international family and social-affairs issues; coordinated overseas programs and spending; developed relationships with foreign governments and U.S. embassies and missions; and managed international travel and staffing. Mr. Steiger represented HHS at various multilateral organizations on behalf of the U.S. government.

Mr. Steiger has served as the U.S. Member of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization, President of the Executive Committee of the Pan-American Health Organization, and U.S. Member and Alternate Member on the Board of Directors of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. He acted as the HHS Secretary’s liaison to the National Security Council, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He also served as the department’s representative to the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator in the implementation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and to the Steering Committee that manages the President’s International Malaria Initiative.

Mr. Steiger earned a Ph.D. in Latin American History at UCLA and a bachelor’s degree in History, summa cum laude, from Yale.