Jill Keesbury is the coordinator of ECafrique, the African forum on emergency contraception, and a program associate with the Population Council based in Nairobi. Keesbury has been with ECafrique since 2004, carrying out extensive research and network building on emergency contraception in Africa. She has been actively involved in mainstreaming the method in both Francophone and Anglophone countries, contributing to national policy development processes and conducting operations research studies in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zambia. Prior to her appointment, Keesbury served as a University of Michigan population fellow in the Council’s Nairobi office and as a senior research analyst at USAID’s Development Information Services. She holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Hawaii (East-West Center) where her research focused on post-Cairo policy change in South Asia.

Keesbury is affiliated with the Population Council's Reproductive Health program.