Executive Head, G20 Joint Finance and Health Taskforce
Serina is Executive Head of the G20 Joint Finance-Health Task Force Secretariat, housed in the WHO. Prior to taking on this role in June 2023, she was Deputy Director for Global Issues and Governance at HM Treasury and was a member of the Operating Committee. In this role she established HM Treasury’s Global
Health capability including the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics spending and delivered the Joint Finance and Health G7 Chair’s Statement on AMR in 2021 under the UK’s G7 Presidency. She has extensive multilateral policy delivery experience at the intersection of public and private finance, climate and development, having led the UK’s COP26 Finance Day policy in 2021, headed the Private Sector Department in DFID (now FCDO), and as private sector adviser for the Green Climate Fund. Prior to joining the UK Civil Service, she had a long-established international career in private finance, including as a partner taking
an investment advisory firm to public listing, in senior roles at Nomura International and heading investment funds at Prudential/M&G Investment Management.
She is a CFA charter holder and holds a BSc in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, an MSc in Environmental Economics and a Diploma in International Development.
