Maarten Oranje is a health financing and health systems strengthening expert, with a background in economics and international relations. He has supported performance-based financing implementation in a range of Sub-Saharan African countries. In recent years, he has worked for the WHO as a long-term consultant, conducting country case studies and conceptual studies on the use of digital technologies for health financing, as well as on the link between health financing and climate change. Maarten currently works as an expert in Health and Education Systems for Cordaid. Maarten holds an MA in European Studies.

Inke Mathauer is a senior health financing advisor at the WHO in Geneva, where she leads global work on strategic purchasing for universal health coverage, with an interest on mixed provider payment systems, governance arrangements for purchasing, and digital technologies for health financing. She has published on a wide range of health system and health financing topics. Inke has over 25 years of experience and holds a MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics.

Kaija Kasekamp is a health economist specialising in health systems, particularly primary health care, financing. At the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing, she supports governments and national purchasers across Europe and Central Asia in analysing, designing, and implementing health financing and provider-payment reforms. Previously, she worked at Estonia’s Ministry of Social Affairs and the Estonian Health Insurance Fund. Kaija is pursuing a PhD on chronic care management in primary care level and lectures in health economics.

Ina Kalisa is the Head of the Community-Based Health Insurance Department at the Rwanda Social Security Board. She previously worked with WHO Rwanda as a health economist, where she supported the Government of Rwanda in designing and implementing key health financing strategies and reforms. Before that, she served as a lecturer and researcher in health financing and policy at the University of Rwanda, School of Public Health. Ina is a medical doctor with a Master of Science in Public Health.

Girmaye Deye Dinsa is a health financing advisor to the Minister of Health of Ethiopia and to the Amhara and Oromia Regional Health Bureaus. He serves as Deputy Director for Health Financing at the Fenot Project, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. With extensive experience in public health program management and academic teaching, he also serves as an Honorary Associate Professor of Health Economics at Jimma and Haramaya Universities. Girmaye holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics and degrees in Development and General Economics.