Faculty

Kelechi Ohiri

Kelechi Ohiri
Teaching

Malaria: Breaking the Cycle:

  • Scale-up for Control in Nigeria

Dr Kelechi Ohiri serves as managing partner at Flint Atlantic Capital Partners. He formerly served as senior adviser to the Ministers of Health and Finance in Nigeria. He was also an engagement manager with McKinsey and Company, where he served healthcare clients in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His functional focus areas were private equity, strategy and organization design.

Before McKinsey, Kelechi worked with the World Bank Group, focusing on strengthening health systems in emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. He is currently on the Board of the World Health Organization’s Alliance for Health Systems and Policy Research. He is also a visiting scientist at the Harvard University, a Desmond Tutu Fellow of the African Leadership Initiative, and member of the Aspen Global Leadership network. He has served on a number of global expert advisory panels for several international organizations, including the Institute of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Bank and the WHO. He has over 15 years’ experience in the healthcare sector spanning clinical medicine, consultancy and advisory in the public and private sectors.

he earned a Medical degree from the University of Lagos and master’s degrees in Public Health and Health Policy and Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was a Healthcare Management Fellow at Harvard and has worked as a primary care physician in various settings.