Alice Kang’ethe, a global health leader with over 20 years’ program and non-profit management experience, is the founding CEO of the Beginnings Fund, a philanthropic initiative partnering with African governments to accelerate progress in saving maternal and newborn lives.
She recently served as the global Chief Operating Officer at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) where she oversaw a complex multi program, multi country operation in over 40 countries spread across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Prior to this, Alice held multiple global program leadership roles focussed on women and children’s health. As the Executive Vice President of Vaccine Delivery and Family Planning programs, she led the development and deployment of CHAI’s global strategy to accelerate introduction of new childhood vaccines and accelerate uptake of long acting reversible contraceptives. As Vice President of Maternal and Child Health, Alice initiated CHAI’s integrated Maternal and Newborn Health strategy. Before that she launched and led CHAI’s global Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) program.
Alice’s time at CHAI started in managing country program operations. She launched greenfield operations and managed a portfolio of countries including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, and Uganda in her role as a Regional Director, Southern Africa. She previously served as the Deputy Country Director, Kenya. Alice joined CHAI as a volunteer in 2003, where she helped develop the first comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment plans for South Africa and Tanzania.
Alice’ early career was as a management consultant at KPMG East Africa serving international development and public sector clients, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, World Bank, and government Ministries.
Alice holds a first-class degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and a Master of Science degree in Economics and Human Resource Management from the London School of Economics.
