Ray Chambers

Chambers' philanthropic efforts are diverse, with major focus areas in global health, mentoring, and revitalizing his home city of Newark, New Jersey.

[1] Chambers studied at Rutgers University–Newark, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and earned an MBA degree from Seton Hall University in 1968.

[2] Chambers is the former chairman of Wesray Capital Corporation, a private equity holding company that he co-founded with William E. Simon, the former United States Secretary of the Treasury.

[8] During his tenure, visibility, awareness, and funding for malaria each increased exponentially, contributing to the distribution of more than 1 billion life-saving mosquito nets to sub-Saharan Africa and averting more than 6.2 million malaria-related deaths, most of which were children under five years of age.

In February 2013, the Secretary-General expanded Chambers’ mandate as his first Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – the internationally agreed set of humanitarian targets.

[9] Chambers worked with key funding partners—including governments, financial institutions and the private sector—to secure adequate resources to provide the essential supplies, delivery mechanisms, systems support and measurement tools needed to attain the health MDGs.

In this role he was tasked with catalyzing efforts and commitments required for the successful implementation of the health-related goals in Agenda 2030—which included ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria.