Pat Christen

Pat Christen is a managing director of The Omidyar Group, serving as a senior advisor to
philanthropists Pierre and Pam Omidyar. Her role focuses on cultivating environments of
learning, innovation, impact, and accountability across all Omidyar Group organizations
and initiatives.

Prior to joining The Omidyar Group, Pat served as President and CEO of HopeLab, a non-
profit harnessing the power and appeal of technology to improve human health and well-
being. Under Pat’s leadership for more than a decade, HopeLab’s work centered on the
development of specially designed technology to drive positive health behavior among
youth. HopeLab is currently focused on the research and development of new social
technologies to promote human resilience among adolescents and young adults.

Prior to HopeLab, Pat was President and Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS
Foundation for 15 years, where she worked with her counterparts nationally to craft the
federal Ryan White C.A.R.E. Act. This precedent-setting legislation generated billions of
dollars in critical funding for AIDS treatment care in the United States.

Pat also served as President of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, establishing AIDS
clinics and playing an active role in AIDS-planning efforts globally. During her tenure.
Pangaea was responsible for the construction of the Infectious Diseases Institute at
Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, a state-of-the-art AIDS clinic, research, and
training center which opened its doors in August of 2004 and serves as an essential
clinical, research, training, and care center for Africa.

Pat has written, studied, and lectured on social and health issues both in the U.S. and
abroad. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, East Africa from 1982–1985. She is a
graduate of Stanford University, where she studied biology and political science. She is
also a mother of four, a role that deeply inspires her work.