Vincent Irivbua Ahonkai

Dr. Vincent Ahonkhai is currently an independent consultant and Principal, Gwynedd Consultancy, LLC in the Philadelphia area, USA. He is an expert in Global Health and Biopharmaceutical R&D with a focus on producing innovative health tools for the prevention, treatment, and elimination of infectious diseases to all persons who need them worldwide.

Prior to his current position, he served at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as the founding Head, Regulatory Affairs, Global Health. He led the partnerships that built a transformative framework for accelerating access to therapeutics, vaccines, diagnostics, and medical devices in low and middle-income countries of the world. He retired as Senior Advisor, Global Health in 2017.

With about 30 years’ experience in multi-national biopharmaceutical companies, Dr. Ahonkhai has contributed to, or led teams that developed innovative products across disease groups. He also managed cross-cutting functions in Clinical Research, Medical Affairs, and product life cycle. Earlier in his career, he was in academic medicine and bench research and has authored over 60 scientific publications in peer-reviewed medical journals.