Dr Konji Sebati

Dr Konji Sebati is the current CEO of IPASA, the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa. Konji has over 25 years’ experience in the Public and Private sector. Konji served as a Medical Officer in Paediatrics and Child Health for several years before managing 21 Primary Health Care clinics in Pretoria. She joined the private sector working first with Roche as Medical Advisor and then with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals as a senior Executive in Medical and Corporate Affairs, in South Africa and at the Pfizer Headquarters New York. In 2004 she was appointed South Africa’s Ambassador to Switzerland, The Vatican and Liechtenstein, and in 2008 was appointed Ambassador to France, UNESCO and the OECD. She worked as an International Civil Servant working for a United Nations Agency, WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organisation, based in Geneva, as senior Director heading the Department of Traditional Knowledge and Global Challenges. Konji’s latest achievement was being appointed to the Board of the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV).

Konji has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the North (now University of Limpopo), an MBChb degree from University of Nairobi/Kenyatta Hospital, Kenya, a Diploma in Child Health from the College of Medicine, South Africa, and a Diploma in Public Health Planning and Health Services Management from the University of Witwatersrand.