Katri Bertram

I liked this one. Good read for anyone doing #strategy work 👇

Success sells – but is there any substance behind it? When the New York Times released Trump’s taxes and dire financial losses over decades, the public outcry lay somewhere between “finally, proof for all these lies!” and – rat…

I expected the positive PR spin on all 3, but most of all appreciate the people who dare call out the failures to do what’s really needed. “Success” may sell, but its worth nothing if it doesn’t deliver: katribertram.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/s...

Beautiful. Powerful. #MustRead

2025 ends with a terrifying new turn:
After a phase of dehumanization, we are now entering the phase of
normalization of dehumanization.
#NeverAgainHappening

No, it REWARDS countries for launching wars and committing atrocity after atrocity.

“United we stand. Divided we fall. Divided, the dark age returns. United, we can save and guide the world!” -Churchill, and words I have thought a lot about for our current and increasingly fragmented state of #globalhealth

What a beautiful (moving but also fun) @berliner-philharmoniker.de DSO evening yesterday - including this 😭 💔
m.youtube.com/watch?v=inNB... #NinaSimone #CivilRights #Freedom

Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents

2025 can not become the new 1933.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

With USAID, WHO and now also World Bank (STC) cuts, has someone estimated how many people lost their jobs / consultancies this past year? Broken down into Global North / Global South?

What a week 👇
(I share the discomfort that the “big boys” with the billions and trillions just keep going, scandal after scandal.)

With nearly 1bn of the 4bn coming from Gates, this is a death knell for the Global Fund and the replenishment model - no matter the PR spin that comes out. To save lives, we need to shift to different financing and modalities. Long overdue. #globalhealth

I’ve worked with many teams in my career:
✅ Effective teams
✅ Efficient teams
✅ Driven teams
✅ Smart teams
✅ Fun teams
And truly learned the value of
♥️ Safe space teams.
🙏

Thank you, Maebh. Indeed, and a lovely list you’ve shared 🙏

Good luck getting the work done. STCs in my time at the Bank were what kept most processes and business going....

Full support 💪

Brutal 😢

What I have learned about eyes In 2022, I published a personal global health manifesto. One of my commitments was to work on a “whole person”. So why am I convinced that eye health matters?

In 2022, I published a personal global health manifesto. One of my commitments was to work on a "whole person". So why am I convinced that eye health matters? Next (personal) blog:
katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/w...

Where there’s a parallel discourse but not enough connecting is on far-right politics. And this drives aid cuts…

What makes work special? No-brainer: It's the people!
In leadership we focus on vision, strategy, fighting daily challenges. We often forget what really counts. (A summer photo of our lovely Vienna staff, not a foggy cold one from last week.) @light-for-the-world.org @lichtfuerdiewelt.bsky.social

Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers

The story hiding in plain view: a generation of America’s political and corporate elite - including the current president - were best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein for one and only one reason. If there is justice, many powerful people will fall

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Thanks, Kristof.

Vienna ♥️ (The city I was born in and partly grew up in.)

Is broken better than…gone? The aid sector may not be dead yet, but it is on life support. Don’t kill it or hand everything over to China!

Should people like myself feel guilty about criticizing the aid sector and tied advocacy funding? Thoughts on whether a vanishing aid sector is better than a broken one. And whether no advocacy funding is better than tied funding.
katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/i...

Can’t believe I grew up with
-democracies with functioning checks & balances
-free press and civil society
-human rights that were upheld.
A different era.

Snap. Snap. Snap.
The 2025 soundtrack of spines snapping as more people bend backwards to power.
What happened to integrity?

“all industries are united in their effort to appear less harmful” #health #globalhealth

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Votes to Advance Measure to End Shutdown

This story didn’t age well 😑 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

#UHC is at the heart of the US governmen’s now 6-week shutdown. Worth a read, as more Republicans and their constituents call for Trump to back down.

2025 is a gift of memoirs (to myself). Just finishing Arundhati Roy and next up… 🤩 📚

Too many parallel summits (social, climate, G20), too little action.