Joe Kutzin leads WHO’s health financing team in Geneva.  He is a health economist with over 35 years’ experience, working in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States. He has published numerous conceptual and empirical articles and book chapters on health systems, health financing and Universal Health Coverage, and he drove the effort to include reporting of revenue sources within SHA2011. 

Xu Ke is Senior Health Financing and expenditure Analyst at WHO. She currently leads the WHO Health Accounts team which publishes the Global Health Expenditure Database and annual global health expenditure report. She has 20+ years of experiences working on a wide range of health financing and health policy areas. Her early work on financial risk protection, poverty impact of health payment and equity in health financing, and her regional experiences in supporting country policy dialogue make her an advocate for evidence informed policy development and promoting health expenditure data as a global public good. 

Viroj Tangcharoensathien, advisor on Global Health to Ministry of Public Health, Thailand; trained in medicine, served 10 years in rural hospitals where he got Best Rural Doctor Award. He completed PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he won the Woodruff Medal award for outstanding PhD thesis. He also received, among others, Edwin Chadwick Medal for contributions to improve health systems in the interests of the poor, and WHO Director-General’s Health Leaders 2019 Award. Viroj co-founded International Health Policy Program and contributed to 300+ international peer-reviewed publications. 

Francesca Colombo heads OECD work on health, which aims at providing internationally comparable data on health systems and applying economic analysis to health policies, advising policy makers, stakeholders and citizens on how to respond to demands for more and better health care and make health systems more resilient and people centred.

Justice Nonvignon a Health Economist and public health researcher with extensive experience in teaching and mentoring students. His main areas research experience include economic and impact evaluation of population, health and nutrition programmes and health financing. His research work spans multiple countries in Africa. Justice currently serves as the Acting Head of the Health Economics Programme (HEP) at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC),  a specialized technical agency of the African Union headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Victoria Fan is a senior fellow in global health at CGD and conducts research on a variety of topics such as pandemic preparedness, aid effectiveness, and health systems and financing. Fan joins CGD after 8 years at the University of Hawaii (UH), where she served as associate professor and interim director of the Center on Aging. During her time at the UH, she established a research lab called the Pacific Health Analytics Collaborative, which worked to address social determinants of health and mental health, while working to increase capacity of the local government workforce through public university partnerships. 

Christoph Kurowski is the Global Lead for Health Financing at the World Bank Group, where he directs knowledge initiatives to enhance the Bank’s support to country reforms and to inform the global policy debate on financing for health. Christoph has advised governments at all stages of development in the design and implementation of health financing and health system reforms. He has researched and written on health financing and system issues and contributed to global health initiatives. Prior to his career in international finance and development, he worked as a pediatrician for Doctors without Borders, among others.