Peter Alexander Sands (born 8 January 1962)[1][2] is a British banker, and the executive director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

He started as a trainee at UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office,[5] which he left to take a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard University to earn a master's degree in public administration from Kennedy School of Government.

[8] Also during his time at the bank, Sands was harshly criticized after Standard Chartered paid New York State $340 million in 2012 to settle claims it laundered money for Iran.

At the time of the announcement, the Wall Street Journal noted that Sands, having served at the helm of Standard Chartered for nine years, was among the "longest-serving chiefs of a major Western bank.

[17] In his role at the GFATM, Sands was also appointed to the Pandemic Preparedness Partnership (PPP), an expert group chaired by Patrick Vallance to advise the G7 presidency held by the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2021.