Trevor Neilson, Partner

Trevor has advised a number of the world's leading philanthropists, including Bono, Bill Gates, President Bill Clinton, and Sir Richard Branson, and has been involved in the creation and implementation of many of the world's most respected philanthropic initiatives. He has extensive experience in addressing global and domestic problems including disease, poverty, education, child welfare, refugees, emergency relief and the environment. Trevor served on the national steering committee for Cleantech and Green Business Leaders for Obama, a constituency group of President-Elect Obama's campaign.

Trevor helped create Bono's Debt, AIDS, Trade Africa (DATA) organization, and continues to serve on its policy board. He served as Executive Director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC), which was created with investments from Bill Gates, George Soros and Ted Turner and represented more than 220 multinational companies with philanthropic interests related to the AIDS pandemic.

Prior to his work with the GBC, Trevor served as the Director of Public Affairs and Director of Special Projects for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest foundation. Trevor also served in the White House during the Clinton administration. Trevor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the board of LabNow, a biotechnology company that seeks to improve global health through point-of-care laboratory testing, as well as the advisory boards of the Wikimedia Foundation, the Genocide Intervention Network and Global Action for Children.

He is also a senior advisor to global communications company APCO Worldwide, was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and served as a Visiting Practitioner at the Georgetown University Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership.