Femke Smeets

Femke Smeets brings over 15 years of experience in innovative healthcare financing and delivery projects as well as blended finance and public-private partnerships in health. Since early 2020, Femke co-leads a boutique impact investment advisory and management venture, called Total Impact Capital (TIC) Europe. As partner at TIC EU, Femke leads the healthcare advisory and thought leadership projects. In this position, she has worked with partners, including Philips, leading global biopharma companies, the European Commission, the Health Finance Coalition/Malaria no More, GBC Health and AMREF amongst other, on designing, fundraising, and building supportive international and local ecosystems for high-impact investment funds and ventures. She has moreover set up a catalytic debt fund for emerging local investments funds in Africa. Previous positions included head of Business Development for the PharmAccess Group, director of the Capacity Building Facility of the Medical Credit Fund, a debt impact fund for health in Africa, and health PPP consultant. Prior to this, Femke in public service for the Dutch Ministries of Economic and Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands and the United States. Femke holds degrees in Business Administration (BSc) and Political Science (MSc) and finished an executive leadership/business program at INSEAD business school in 2018.