As President of the Better World Campaign and Senior Vice President at the United Nations Foundation, Peter Yeo leads the Foundation’s strategic engagement with Congress and the Administration to advance policy initiatives that strengthen and support the UN’s work for global progress.

Under Yeo’s leadership, the Foundation has helped secure multibillion-dollar payments from the U.S. government to the United Nations; forged a strategic alliance with the United Nations Association of the USA to create the largest network of UN supporters across the country; championed U.S. legislation standing against child marriage through the support of Girl Up; and advanced year-over-year increases in U.S. bilateral and multilateral global health funding.

Yeo joined the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Campaign in 2009 with over twenty years of legislative, analytical, and management experience, including senior roles on Capitol Hill and at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to joining the Foundation, he served for ten years as Deputy Staff Director of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Representatives Tom Lantos (D-CA) and Howard Berman (D-CA).

In this role, he worked on a broad range of foreign policy and foreign aid issues. On behalf of the Committee Democrats, he led successful negotiations for the landmark HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003—commonly known as PEPFAR—as well as its $50 billion reauthorization in 2008.

He also shepherded into law several measures addressing China, Tibet, Burma, and East Timor. Earlier in his career, Yeo served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. State Department during the second Clinton Administration, where he led negotiations around repayment of U.S. arrears to the United Nations and participated as part of the U.S. delegation to the climate negotiations in Kyoto.

Yeo holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading independent, nonpartisan foreign policy institute, and serves on the Board of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.