Simon Cooke

Simon Cooke is the Chief Executive Officer of Marie Stopes International and a member of the Family Planning 2020 Reference Group. Simon is a veteran of the consumer goods industry, having spent 15 years with Procter & Gamble in a number of developed and developing countries, and eight years with Reckitt Benckiser, where he was General Manager Middle East and North Africa until 2012, based in Dubai. Subsequently, he was CEO of an Indian-owned, private equity backed Industrial company, Supermax, also based in Dubai. His vision is to merge best practices from the private sector, including financial metrics, with successful approaches from the international development sector to deliver better value for donors and stakeholders, better accountability and governance, and most importantly, more sustainable delivery of Marie Stopes International’s mission: children by choice, not chance.