Jiri Keirsse

Jiri Keirsse - Head of Innovation Strategy & Public Private Partnerships, UCB

Heading UCB’s Innovation Strategy & Public-Private Partnerships team as part of the R&D organization, Jiri is responsible to inform, design, and articulate UCB’s Research and early Development strategy. Overall, his mission is to maximize value & impact by appropriately combining established internal scientific strengths with synergistic external innovation opportunities. Convinced of the potential offered by external connectivity, the team leads UCB’s engagement with & contributions to national & regional consortia, interactions with public partners (universities, hospitals, research centers), as well as public funding applications.

Jiri holds a PhD in bioengineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) – Vlaams Instituut Biotechnologie (VIB) (Belgium), focused on onco-immunology. Before joining UCB, he gained several years of management consulting experience at McKinsey & Company, mostly serving companies in the biotech and biopharma space on a wide range of strategy topics across the value chain.