Kevin A. Klock joined the FNIH in October 2015 and serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. In addition to providing overall leadership of the Foundation’s corporate infrastructure and legal strategy, he has led or supported collaborations that promote health and wellbeing, including advancing discoveries at the intersection of music and health, building institutional capacity for genomic research, and exploring mechanisms for pandemic preparedness.

Klock holds an appointment at Georgetown University as Adjunct Professor and Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. His scholarship has been published in the Journal for the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Oxford University Press, and others. Klock was formerly Head of Governance and Assistant Secretary for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance where he played a key role to stand up the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm). Prior to this he was with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), which provides research and education to corporate boards.

Klock received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown and is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the United States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Duke University, received his M.A. from American University, and was Lord Rothermere Scholar at Oxford University.