Frankline Keter PhD
Senior Adviser
Dr. Frankline Keter PhD, is a distinguished scientist with extensive experience in business management, strategic planning, market shaping, deal origination and execution, and structuring public-private partnerships, particularly within the pharmaceutical manufacturing and life sciences sectors.
At MedAccess, Frankline brings deep expertise in designing and implementing tailored market-shaping strategies that eliminate financial and structural barriers to equitable access to medical innovations in Africa. He plays a key strategic role in advising on the development and deployment of innovative financing mechanisms, such as volume guarantees and market-shaping loans to de-risk health investments and incentivise suppliers and manufacturers to enter underserved markets, ultimately expanding access to health products and technologies and driving sustainable impact in global health. He also engages with governments to ensure the co-creation of solutions.
Frankline serves as Chief Executive Officer of API for Africa, a non-profit dedicated to building local capacity for the manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) across Sub-Saharan Africa. He successfully led the mobilization of €50 million in financing from EIB to strengthen local pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa, with the majority of this investment explicitly directed toward building API production.
Previously, Frankline held key roles at the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Africa Resource Centre, where he led programmes focused on local pharmaceutical manufacturing, pneumonia and diarrhea interventions, and orchestrated the private sector-led medical oxygen and pulse oximetry access strategy for public hospitals. He also built and managed a portfolio of public health supply chain research initiatives across eight countries in Africa.
Dr. Keter holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry (University of Johannesburg, SA), M.Sc. Chemistry (University of Western Cape, SA), various business certifications including Bio-Entrepreneurship (University of Pretoria, SA), Healthcare/Humanitarian Supply Chain Management (Georgia Tech, USA), and M&A (Italy).
