leadership crisis at the Bank, Wieczorek-Zeul was a leading figure in the downfall of Paul Wolfowitz as president of the organization. At the time, Germany’s role was central partly because it held the EU presidency and also chaired the bank’s 24-nation Executive Board. Wolfowitz was later replaced by Robert Zoellick. Alongside Chancellor Merkel, Wieczorek-Zeul co-hosted the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria replenishment conference in Berlin in September 2007. During the conference, donor countries promised nearly $10 billion to the Fund for 2008-2010. In 2008, Wieczorek-Zeul served as Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha, Qatar. Between 2008 and 2009, she was part of a High-Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems, which had been launched to help strengthen health systems in the 49 poorest countries in the world and was chaired by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Robert Zoellick. Also between 2008 and 2009, Wieczorek-Zeul served as member of the Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, which was chaired by author and Nobel Laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz. The commission had the aim of proposing necessary reforms in the world financial system that would prevent another event like the late-2000s financial crisis. Life after politics Since leaving politics, Wieczorek-Zeul has been involved in a number of philanthropic activities, including the following: German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE), Member (since 2016, appointed ad personam by Chancellor Angela Merkel) Kofi Annan Foundation, Member of the Electoral Integrity Initiative (EII) (since 2016) Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Member of the Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB) (since 2016) Friends of the Global Fund, Vice-Chair of the Board (since 2013) International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM), Member of the Board of Directors (since 2014) Christian Liebig Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2010) Africa Action, Patron (since 2009) CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg, Member of the Board of Trustees Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Member of the Committee on Sustainable Development Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), Member Health Impact Fund (HIF), Member of the Advisory Board Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte, Member of the Advisory Board United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN), Member of the Presidium Xertifix, Member of the Board of Trustees Wilhelm Dröscher Prize of the Social Democratic Party, Member of the Board of Trustees Humanist