Our Faculty
Policy/Strategy Academy programs are led by the Global Majority’s most experienced negotiators, policymakers, and strategists. They combine deep expertise in multilateral diplomacy, global health governance, trade, and international relations with practical experience shaping continental and global frameworks. Each course brings together core faculty members and guest experts drawn from African Union institutions, government ministries, academic centers, and international organizations. This ensures participants learn not only from theory, but from those actively influencing negotiations today.
Our distinguished faculty are drawn from both the academy and the practice. They remain active in their external leadership roles, and enrich each programme with pragmatism, depth and rigour, making each course of high value to those shaping the world of governance.
Malebona Precious Matsoso
Director General of the National Department of Health, South Africa
Ms. Malebona Precious Matsoso is a South African public-health leader and Co-Chair of WHO’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) guiding the Pandemic Agreement negotiations. She directs the Health Regulatory Science Platform within the Wits Health Consortium and serves as an honorary lecturer at Wits. A former Director-General of South Africa’s National Department of Health, she previously held senior posts at WHO, including Director of Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property. Her career spans medicines regulation and access – she earlier led South Africa’s medicines authority – and global health governance. In 2025, she was recognized with the SAMRC President’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma
CEO of Village Reach
Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma leads VillageReach as CEO, advancing the organization’s 2030 strategy to expand equitable primary health care across Africa. He previously served as Vice President for Global Health Strategy at the UN Foundation and, earlier, as acting director and founding deputy director(-general) of Africa CDC, where he helped steer the continent’s COVID-19 response and championed Africa’s “New Public Health Order. His career includes senior roles with WHO and the Government of Kenya, with a consistent focus on health security, policy, and diplomacy.
Dr. Ebere Okereke
Chief Program Officer at Mohammed bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity
Dr. Ebere Okereke is a global health physician specializing in health security and health-system strengthening. She is Chief Program Officer at Mohammed bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. Previously, she was CEO of the Africa Public Health Foundation (resigning in 2024) and served as Senior Adviser in Health at the Tony Blair Institute, following a decade of leadership at Public Health England/UKHSA. A Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health, she is known for developing leaders – particularly women – in public health across Africa and the UK.
Our Partners
PSA is built in collaboration with leading institutions committed to strengthening the Global Majority’s role in global governance.
- Policy/Strategy – Founding advisory, shaping strategy and program design.
- Magnia – Branding, communications and event management partner.
- Kofisi – Venue partner, providing professional workspace and meeting hubs across Africa.