We led a global search to identify leaders with experience of growing and developing international membership organisations, particularly those with a health and research angle. Using the deep networks of Panorama, we leveraged our contacts across several continents: Europe (in this case mainly people based in Geneva, London, Brussels or the Hague area), North America (Washington D.C., Chicago, Boston and others), as well as Canada and Australia. We extensively mapped the global health professional membership bodies sector, reaching out to potential sources and candidates within global organisations which had an institutional membership. We also reached more widely into the Not-for-Profit sector, international Government (e.g. UN, WHO and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office), and NGOs. The appointed candidate, Julie Hall, a public health specialist from the UK, who was based in Geneva where she was serving as the Health Lead for International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.