Philippe François

Philippe François is an international supply chain leader who brings to MSH more than 30 years of experience in managing health supply chains. Throughout his career in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the US, François has been instrumental in defining and deploying broad supply chain strategies. In the private sector, he served as senior vice president in charge of global supply chain for multinational companies such as Baxter Healthcare and Becton & Dickinson in the medical device industry and Novartis in the pharmaceuticals industry. In these positions, he managed global distribution networks supporting billions of dollars of medicine supply worldwide.

In the public health care sector, François led the supply operations group at the Global Fund, where he oversaw purchasing, supply chain, and quality, distributing over a billion dollars of medical commodities per year to low- and middle-income countries to combat AIDS, TB, and malaria.

A French National, François holds a master’s degree in engineering and a post-graduate qualification in business administration.