About Anu Khanal
Anu Khanal is a Director at BillionScale Health, where she leads strategy and partnerships to scale breakthrough health innovations through blended finance, helping countries bend the curve on disease burden and affordability.
Previously, as Director of Global Policy and Advocacy at Malaria No More and the Health Finance Coalition, Anu led donor resource mobilization in Japan, Korea, and the Gulf states, and positioned vector-borne diseases as a priority for climate adaptation and health finance. She cultivated relationships with multilateral development banks and supported countries in thinking through financing pathways to scale life-saving innovations like Wolbachia from pilots to national programs across Asia and the Pacific.
Earlier, Anu was Regional Director for Southeast Asia at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, where she also managed over 50 grants negotiated with government and civil society partners. She was a founding member of the Global Health Advocacy Incubator. Across her career, she has focused on country-led approaches and integration into national programs, from institutionalizing Vietnam's drowning prevention program within government systems, to embedding RMNCH services into government delivery in Tanzania, to advancing tobacco control and road safety policy reforms across Asia.
Anu serves as Vice President of the Gorkhaly Fund, where she led earthquake-recovery work in Nepal following the 2015 disaster, including the Rebuild Barpak project, recognized with the 2018 International Project Management Award for Sustainable Development.
A native of Nepal, Anu holds a master's degree from New York University and is based in Northern Nevada.