Event Program
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AVMI’s statement on behalf of the African vaccine manufacturers in attendance.
AVMI-Statement-Addis-Meeting-05-July-2023-FinalList of Participants
| Organisation | Name | Designation |
|---|---|---|
| Africa CDC | Akhona Tshangela (Ms) | PAVM Program Coordinator |
| Africa CDC | Alain Cubahiro (Mr) | PAVM Administrative Assistant |
| Africa CDC | Chiluba Mwila (Mr) | PAVM Talent Development Lead |
| Africa CDC | Dickson Amenya (Mr) | Photographer |
| Africa CDC | Gideon Olaja (Mr) | PAVM Sr. Data Analyst |
| Africa CDC | Huguette Ngung | Special Assistant to the Director General |
| Africa CDC | Jean Kaseya (Dr) | Director General |
| Africa CDC | Kevin Irandagiye (Mr) | PAVM Communications |
| Africa CDC | Kim Sukyoung | PAVM Regulatory Advisor |
| Africa CDC | Yared Yiegezu Zegiorgis | PAVM Sr. Data Analyst |
| Africa Union Commission | Minata Samate Cessouma | Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development |
| African Development Bank | Nazeem Mohamed (Dr) | International Pharmaceutical Consultant |
| African Development Bank | Ghada Abuzaid (Ms) | Principal Industrial Program Coordinator |
| Afrigen Biologics | Petro Terblanche (Prof) | Managing Director |
| Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia | Afewor Kassu (Prof) | Director General |
| Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia | Alemsegd Abdisa (Dr) | Deputy Director General |
| Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia | Dereje Nigussie (Dr) | Director, Vaccines, Medical devices Diagnostics Directorate |
| Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia | Fistum Adinew (Mr) | Director, Pharmaceutical & Biological R&D |
| Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia | Markos Abebe (Dr) | Local Vaccine manuf. committee member. |
| Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia | Messay Woldemariam (Mr) | Director, Pharmaceutical Industry Development |
| Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited | Stavros Nicolaou (Dr) | Group Senior Executive: Strategic Trade Development |
| Atlantic life sciences | David Kafui Klutse (Mr) | Chief Operations Officer |
| Atlantic life sciences | Dhananjay Tripathi (Mr) | Chief Executive Officer |
| Avacare Global | Tadesse Mekonen (Dr) | Executive: Clinical, and R&D |
| AVMI | Tolu Disu (Ms) | Board Member |
| AVMI | Kirsty King-Matongo (Ms) | Administrative Assistant |
| AVMI | Patrick Tippoo (Mr) | Executive Director |
| BioGeneric Pharma S.A.E (BGP), Egypt | Mina Adel (Mr) | Vaccines Unit – Business Development and Regulatory Affairs Manager l Project Coordinator of WHO mRNA Vaccine Technology Transfer Hub Program |
| BIOLYNX&TIC, Bénin | Lancina Soro | Co-founder |
| BioNTech | William Warr (Dr) | Senior Vice President Global Health Strategy |
| Biovac, South Africa | Farrah Losper (Ms) | Chief Commercial Officer |
| Boston Consulting Group | Arthur Salaün (Mr) | Principal |
| CHAI | Philip Dorrell (Mr) | |
| CHAI | Frauke Uekermann (Dr) | Director, Vaccine Markets |
| CHAI | Simone Blayer (Dr) | Global Head, CMC & NCT, Essential Medicines |
| DEI Biopharma, Uganda | Matthias Magoola (Mr) | Chief Executive Officer |
| DEI Biopharma, Uganda | Sarfaraz K Niazi (Dr) | Advisor |
| DEK Vaccines | Kinapharma | Farhan Khan (Mr) | Project Manager |
| DEK Vaccines | Kinapharma | Kofi Nsiah-Poku (Dr) | Managing Director |
| Doshi Consultants | Bharat Kumar Doshi (Dr) | Director |
| Doshi Consultants | Siddharth Doshi (Mr) | Director |
| Egypt: Unified Procurement Authority – UPA | Hisham Stait (Dr) | Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors |
| Egypt: Unified Procurement Authority – UPA | Remonda Shenouda (Dr) | |
| Ethiopian Minister of Health | Lia Tadese (Dr) | Minister of Health, Addis Ababa FDRE |
| EuBiologics Co., Ltd, Korea | KyeongHo Min (Dr) | Deputy Chief Executive Officer |
| EuBiologics Co., Ltd, Korea | Rachel Park (Ms) | Director |
| European Commission | Katja Meijaard (Ms) | Senior Policy Officer Global Health, Ministry of Health |
| European Commission – Germany | Lisa Cavalerie (Ms) | |
| European delegation Addis Ababa | Aklilu Desta | Project Office |
| European Commission | Martin Seychell (Mr) | Deputy Director-General DG INTPA |
| European Commission | Bartlomiej Kurcz (Mr) | Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority |
| European Commission | Tobias Mac-Lean (Mr) | Policy Officer – Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority |
| European Commission | Wolfgang Philipp (Mr) | Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority |
| EVA Pharma International | Sylvia Vito (Ms) | Africa Head |
| GAVI | Benjamin Rolfe (Mr) | Consultant, Senior Adviser, Development Finance |
| Gennecs – Emerging Markets | Ahmed Hossam Adam (Mr) | Investment relations officer |
| Gennecs – Emerging Markets | Nibal Dahaba (Dr) | General Manager |
| Gennecs – Emerging Markets | Sherine Shawky (Ms) | Public market & vaccines acquisition head |
| GIZ – Germany | Axel Klaphake (Dr) | Director Economic and Social Development, Digitalisation |
| GIZ – Germany | Bernhard von der Haar (Mr) | Group leader collaboration with the private sector |
| GIZ – Germany | Kina-Kira Hiller (Ms) | Sektorvorhaben Globale Gesundheit Gruppe Gesundheit, Bildung und |
| GIZ – Germany | Manuel Batz (Mr) | BACKUP Health, Head of Component Vaccine Manufacturing TEI MAV+ Division Economic and Social Development, Digitalisation Sector and Global Programmes |
| GIZ – Germany | Tobias Buender (Mr) | BACKUP Health Advisor Division Economic and Social Development, Digitalisation Sector and Global Programmes |
| GIZ – Ghana | Ariane von Maercker (Ms) | Head of Component – Support to Vaccine Manufacturing in Ghana |
| GIZ – Germany | Francis Kofi Nunoo (Mr) | Financial Controller, Ministry of Heath |
| GIZ – Germany | Jasper Sablah (Mr) | Technical Advisor – DeveloPPP in Health |
| GIZ – African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF) | Padmashree Gehl Sampath (Dr) | Senior Advisor to the President Pharmaceuticals and Health | Office of the President AfDB Group |
| GlaxoSmithKline PLC | Ariane McCabe (Ms) | Lead for Global Health Policy & Advocacy and Geneva Advocacy |
| IFPMA | Greg Perry (Mr) | Assistant Director General |
| Innovative Biotech, Nigeria | Simon Agwale (Dr) | Chief Executive Officer |
| Institut Pasteur d’Algérie | Benazzouz Safouane (Dr) | Benazzouz Safouane |
| Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal | Amadou Sall (Dr) | Director General |
| Institut Pasteur Tunis, Tunisia | Nizar Laabidi (Dr) | Production Manager and Responsible Pharmacist |
| KENUP Foundation | Holm Keller (Mr) | Executive Chairman |
| Kenya Biovax Institute (KBI) | Cecilia Wanjala (Dr) | Head of Strategy, Planning, Regulatory and Quality. |
| Kenya Biovax Institute (KBI) | Hope Nyambu (Ms) | |
| Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) | Elijah Songok (Prof) | Director General |
| BDO | Rick Stock (Dr) | Director |
| Kroll | Zachary Held (Mr) | Director |
| Kroll | Stefanie Perrella (Ms) | Managing Director |
| Lion’s Head Global Partners | Arnaud Bonnet (Mr) | Managing Director |
| MARBIO | Younes Hillali (Mr) | General Manager |
| Medicines Patent Pool | Ike James (Dr) | Head of Technology Transfer |
| Merck Lifescience | Chris Masila (Dr) | Director – PractHealth Consulting |
| Merck Lifescience | Sarah Reynolds (Ms) | Regional Strategy Manager – East and West Africa |
| Mozambique Holdings Limited | Deepak Parayanken (Mr) | Executive Director |
| MSD | Brent Kulik (Mr) | Director, Global Vaccines Strategy |
| National Vaccine Institute, Ghana | Awuah Baffour (Dr) | Acting Director Technical Coordination Directorate |
| National Vaccine Institute, Ghana | William Ampofo (Prof) | Chief Executive Officer |
| Nigeria Integrated Biopharmaceuticals Industries Consortium (NIBI) | Amenya Wokoma (Mr) | Managing Director/CEO |
| Nigeria, National Primary Health Care Development Agency NPCDA | Maimuna Hamisu (Dr) | Head NPSIA Department of Disease Control & Immunization |
| Pharmonova Zambia | Bokani Soko (Mr) | Consultant |
| Pharmonova Zambia | Mohammed Umar (Mr) | Chief Executive Officer |
| Pharmonova Zambia | Ntinda Kandeke (Mr) | |
| Procurement and Supply Chain Management at Ministry of Health, Ghana | Joshua Bright Eleblu (Mr) | Head, Logistics Unit Procurement and Supply Chain Directorate Ministry of Health |
| Revital Healthcare Kenya | Harsh Mehta | Director of International Business Development |
| Revital Healthcare Kenya | Krupali Shah | Technical Director |
| Sanofi | Esin Ozge Kavustu | Head of International Funded Public Market |
| Sanofi | Adélaïde Cejudo | Vaccine Public Affairs Lead – Zone: Africa and International Public Funded Market (IFPM) |
| SK Bioscience Co Ltd | Hun Kim | President, Global R&BD |
| SK Bioscience Co Ltd | Jin S. Park | VP, Head of Global BD |
| SK Bioscience Co Ltd | Mike An (Dr) | Vice President, Head of Global Sales & Operations |
| SK Bioscience Co Ltd | Odilov Parviz | Manager, Office of Global Sales & Operations |
| Syntegon Technology South Africa (Pty) Ltd | Brett Willie (Mr) | Sales and Service Manager |
| Team Europe | Catherine Dujardin | Support Structure MAV+ |
| Team Europe | Laura Moreno Reyes | Support Structure MAV+ |
| Team Europe | Marianne Mouly | Support Structure MAV+ |
| Team Europe | Sofia Imad | Support Structure MAV+ |
| The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) | Andrea Kim | Business Development Associate |
| The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) | Junhee Lee | Business Development Manager |
| Thermo Fisher | Nebiyou Habtemariam | Public Health Developer in the region |
| Thermo Fisher | Barend van Vuuren (Mr) | Emerging Market Manager Global Health Equity Business |
| Thermo Fisher | Matthew Clayton | Bioproduction Lead for the Region |
| UNCTAD | Ermias Biadgleng | Legal Affairs Officer, Intellectual Property Unit, Division on Investment and Enterprise |
| UNCTAD | Judith Ameso | Economic Affairs Officer |
| UNCTAD | Tazebeyachew Sintayehu Tefera | Programm Associate UNCTAD, Regional Office for Africa |
| UNCTAD | Alastair West | Consultant |
| UNECA | Stephen Karingi | Director, Regional Integration and Trade Division |
| UNICEF | Dorcas Noertoft | Chief of Procurement Services |
| UNICEF | Andisheh Ghazieh, | Manager, EPI Unit Vaccine Center |
| Unizima | Benoit Gregoire | Business Development Manager & Tech Transfer Sr Expert |
| Unizima | Johnny Vlaminck | Business Development Manager and licensing expert |
| Unizima | Hala Audi | Chief Executive Officer |
| Unizima | Nick Bertrand Nthahokaja | Sr Strategic Advisor Africa |
| USAID | Zelalem Sahile | PQM+ lead |
| USAID | Alison Collins | Health Systems Advisor, Office of Health Systems, USAID |
| Vaccine Access Initiative | Cederick Akwesigye (Dr) | Group Managing Director |
| Vaccine Access Initiative | Souleh Semalulu (Dr) | Head, Vaccine Division |
| VACSERA – Biological Products and Vaccines, Egypt | Rania Mohsen (Dr) | The head of Technical Office |
| WHO | Martin Nicholson (Dr) | Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR), Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) |
| France | Ambassador Rémi Maréchaux (H.E) | French Ambassador in Ethiopia and to the African Union |
| France | Clélia Chevrier Kolacko(Ms) | Deputy Director for Sustainable Development at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| France | Jeanne De Wendel (Ms) | Global Health Partnerships Unit Lead, Direction for Sustainable Development, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| France | Sarah Rueda (Ms) | Global health advisor at the French Embassy in Ethiopia and to the African Union |
| Belgium | Stefaan Thijs (H.E) | Ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti Permanent Representative to the African Union, IGAD and UNECA |
| Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) | Dirk Meyer (Mr) | Head, Global Health; Economy; Trade; Rural Development Department, |
| IVI | Anh Wartel (Ms) | Deputy Director General, Europe office, / Regional Director, |
| Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany | Jürgen Kretz (Mr) | Senior Policy Officer, Global health policy and financing, |
| France | Christian Ndikumagenge (Ms) | Manager, Export Development, |
| Afrexim Bank | Morenikeji Adebiyi (Ms) | Manager, Trade Finance |
| Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development | Tania Rödiger-Vorwerk (Dr) | Deputy Director-General , Global health; resilience; equality of opportunity |
| German Embassy | Irina Hoehn (Ms) | Political Affairs |
| kENUP Foundation | Richard Krampitz (Mr) |
Last updated 26 July 2023