Faith Osier (Kenya), is Co-Director, IoI, Chair, Immunology & Vaccinology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London. She is also the current President of of the International Union of Immunological Societies. Her prior positions include: Executive Director, Human Immunology Laboratory, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI); and Visiting Professor of Malaria Immunology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She previously led two core teams of over 25 scientists across the KEMRI–Wellcome Trust Research Program in Kenya and Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany. The projects focused on creating highly effective malaria vaccines through vaccine candidate discovery, identifying immune correlates of protection and unravelling important mechanisms underlying antibody-dependent protection. She has won multiple prestigious prizes including the Royal Society Pfizer Award, the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Humboldt foundation and the UKRI-MRC/DFID African Research Leader Award.  She is a 2018 TED Fellow and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. She serves on Boards and Expert Committees at the WHO, Wellcome, UKRI, MVI-PATH & BactiVac, and has a global footprint as a keynote & motivational speaker. She is an Official #TOGETHERBAND Ambassador for the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health & Well-being.