Lee Hilling

Lee Hilling has held board and senior executive management positions at academic health centers in the United States, Pakistan, and East Africa. Since 1991 he has served in a wide variety of roles with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), including six years as CEO of the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan; three years on the staff of the Aga Khan’s Secretariat in France, as global Director of Aga Khan Hospitals; and one year as the full-time founding Vice President, Health Services for AKU’s global hospital and health services in East Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has consulted for health systems development in Nigeria, Bangladesh, the Bahamas, and the British Virgin Islands.

Since 2004 he has been deeply involved planning and implementing the French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC), an 85-bed pediatric hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan and since 2006 he has been chairman of the hospital's board. In this role, he has traveled to Afghanistan over sixty times.

FMIC is one of Afghanistan's most remarkable reconstruction success stories. It operates under a four-party public-private partnership involving the Government of Afghanistan, the French Government, a French NGO (La Chaine de L’Espoir) and the AKDN. It has accomplished many miraculous things in in its short existence, including performing 1,600 pediatric cardiac surgeries, half of which were open-heart cases, with results at or exceeding international standards.

A native of Ohio, Lee now lives with his wife in Bethesda, Maryland.