Richard L. Santos
President and Chief Executive Officer IMA World Health

Richard L. (Rick) Santos is the President and Chief Executive Officer of IMA World Health. Rick has over two decades of experience in faith-based and relief and development work. He has been responsible for providing leadership to large and complicated relief and development programs in the field and has served as a senior manager at two different global development organization headquarters. Prior to joining IMA World Health, Rick was most recently involved in developing strategic planning, prioritization and concrete steps for both Church World Service and International Relief and Development's respective governance bodies, senior management and staff. Rick's experience spans providing management and leadership for large complicated programs, including program design and implementation, commodity logistics and administration, as well as providing leadership for external relations, donor outreach, public policy, marketing, research, event and web outreach efforts. Rick holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Johns Hopkins University, a master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from George Washington University.

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IMA World Health Holds to a simple and dedicated mission of advancing health and healing to vulnerable and marginalized people the world over. The group is an international specialist in providing essential healthcare services and medical supplies around the world, and is a nonprofit, faith-based organization working to restore health, hope and dignity to those most in need. It works primarily in the developing world, where an estimated 30 to 70 percent of health care is provided by faith-based organizations. IMA is the largest US-based, ecumenical, international health organization, and is widely recognized for its effective and careful use of resources. In the past 50 years, IMA has provided more than $1 billion in medicines to over 52 countries and the group’s capabilities continue to expand. IMA’s work is never done; wherever there is disease or disaster, IMA will work to bring hope through health and healing. IMA is headquartered in New Windsor, Maryland, USA, with field offices currently in Tanzania, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Southern Sudan, and Kenya.