Kim Hamilton is the Senior Program Officer for policy and advocacy within Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Development Program. She is responsible for developing and overseeing a grantmaking strategy designed to bring more and better resources, action and attention to issues important to the foundation's Global Development Program. She has spent more than fifteen years in the think tank, nonprofit, and philanthropic communities. Prior to joining the foundation, she was president of NetAid and led its merger with Mercy Corps in 2006. She served as director of program planning and external relations at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) from 2001 to 2005. From 1999 to 2001, she was the senior program officer at Alcoa Foundation, overseeing global grant making in twenty-five countries. She has also held positions at the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Dr. Hamilton has also written extensively on international migration issues, with a special interest in Euro-African relations. She holds a doctorate in Demography from Brown University, a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in African Studies, and a bachelor's degree from the Robert D. Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in French and International Studies.