Joel George Brenner
Joel started Auxso to help catalyze innovation, industry, and infrastructure in the service of sustainable development — in the United States and around the world.
Most recently, Joel worked as an independent consultant to public-private partnerships and other entities in global health and development, focusing on strategy, new ventures, and organizational change.
Previously, Joel worked for the World Health Organization (WHO), beginning with the transition team of Director-General J.W. Lee. He was subsequently Technical Officer in the Office of the Assistant-Director General for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (HTM), and HTM’s representative at WHO’s office at the United Nations in New York. His work at WHO included laying the foundations for new mechanisms to improve the supply of medicines for HIV/AIDS and malaria; interfacing with pharmaceutical companies, foundations, and governmental organizations; and supporting WHO's seat on the Board of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. Prior to joining WHO, Joel was a consultant to the Global Partnership to Stop Tuberculosis and its Global TB Drug Facility.
Joel has also worked at technology companies focused on the finance, science, and engineering sectors; at the Boston-based NGO Partners in Health and its Harvard Medical School research affiliate; and at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. In his assignments in global health and others, he has worked in countries throughout West, Central, and Eastern Africa.
Joel studied philosophy and mathematics at Dartmouth College, life sciences and public health at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and law at Columbia Law School and the London School of Economics and Political Science. A native of the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont, he currently lives in New York.