Abolade Oladejo is a knowledge management consultant for WHO. He has several years of strategic leadership experience in development projects. He has worked on several projects across different countries, from Local Governance Accountability to Social and Behaviour Change Communication and Hospital Reforms. He has also served as the global co-chair of the knowledge management community of practice for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs.

Ann-Lise Guisset is a seasoned health system analyst and policy advisor with 15 years' experience at the WHO, at the regional office for Europe, in country offices in Tunisia and Sao Tome and Principe. Currently at the Clinical Services and Systems at headquarters in Genev a, she is leading the Hospital Integration program. With a training in business and administration and a PhD in public health, she worked as a research assistant in universities and at the Belgium Ministry of Health.

During his career, Eric de Roodenbeke has been Chief Executive Officer of the International Hospital Federation, as well as Senior Health Specialist at the WHO for the Global Health Workforce Alliance. He also served the World Bank as a team leader for various health programs, mostly in Africa. He was also, among others, hospital director, Senior Officer at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the French Ministry of Cooperation. Dr. de Roodenbeke holds a PhD in health economics, and Hospital Administration and Public Health diplomas. 

Bruno Meessen is an economist (M.A, PhD). He joined the Health Systems Governance and Financing Department at WHO Geneva in 2020, after a 20-year long academic career. His main domains of expertise are health sector reforms and provider payment mechanisms. Among other tasks, he is currently supervising a program of work on hospital financing interventions for low- and lower-middle income countries.

Sabeen Afzal is a Medical Doctor and Assistant Executive Director of a Public Tertiary Care Hospital, currently serving as Deputy Director at the Federal Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination, Pakistan. Sabeen has also held many key positions and portfolios at the Ministry of National Health including Medical Education & Regulations, Public Health, Nutrition, Maternal Neonatal & Child Health, International Health Regulations, and Health Systems.

Edwine Barasa is the director of the Nairobi Programme of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and also heads the Programme’s Health Economics Research Unit. Edwine has several years of experience of practice, advisory, and conducting health economics and financing research. He provides health financing advisory to the Kenya Ministry of Health and to several international development organizations, including the World Bank and the WHO. He holds a PhD in health economics, a masters degree in health economics and a bachelors degree in Pharmacy. 

Lluis Vinyals Torres is coordinator in health policy and services design at the WHO, Western Pacific Region. He has an extensive experience at different levels of health systems. Lluis worked with different aid actors including multilateral institutions, government agencies and ministries in Mozambique, Angola and The Philippines. His specialties include policy development facilitation, strategic planning, social health insurance schemes design and reforms, operational planning, health financing analytical tools, public finance management reforms, health financing related mechanisms.