Ogochukwu Chukwujekwu is the lead for health financing and investment in the WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo. She is a health economist and health systems specialist with more than fifteen years of experience in global health. Her work with WHO over the past ten years spans offices in the African and Western Pacific regions across thematic areas in health financing, health policy, health systems governance and primary health care.

Susan Sparkes is health economist on the health financing team at WHO in Geneva.  Her work focuses on the implications of fiscal policy, political economy, and health systems reform for universal health coverage, with experience across a range of organizations, including the World Bank, Global Fund, and USAID.

Alexandra Earle is a technical officer for the Health Financing Team in the Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing at WHO. She specializes in health systems analysis and research related to sustainability and transition considerations. 

Modeste Gatcho is a medical doctor and a health econometrics specialist. He currently works as an expert in health financing and health information at the WHO Office in Cameroon. Prior to that, he coordinated health monitoring units within the covid-19 response team in Yaoundé after working for several years in rural areas as a general practitioner in public hospitals. His work is driven, among others, by questions about the way healthcare system worked and access to healthcare for all. 

Georgina Bonet Arroyo is the health financing specialist at WHO Mozambique country office. She is also involved in health governance and reforms, including working with provincial parliamentarians. Prior to that, Georgina has been working as PFM and health financing adviser in Mozambique, as well as for health NGOs and bilateral donor, such as the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA). Georgina holds a MSc in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics and a postgraduate degree in Health Integrated Management Services.

Francis Nwachukwu Ukwuije is a medical doctor and a health economist, who has significantly contributed to Nigeria’s progress towards sustainable financing for UHC. His passion is to painstakingly guide policy makers through sustainable solutions to the age-long challenge of making appropriate health investments towards accelerating UHC and improving the quality of life of all people, especially those most in need. Francis’ interests are in linking core research evidence to policy development and implementation; political economy, economic planning for development; financial risk protection for health, and innovative result-based reforms for efficiency in health.

Agnes Gatome-Munyua is a medical doctor and a healthcare financing professional with more than ten years of work experience. She is currently Program Director at Results for Development (R4D). Her experience spans public/social health insurance, private health insurance, strategic purchasing, insuretech, and research on healthcare costing, discrete choice experiments and policy analysis. Agnes also holds a master's degree in health policy, planning and financing.

Simeon Onyemaechi MD, PhD., is the Managing Director and CEO of Anambra State Health Insurance Agency as well as Chairman of the Forum of the CEOs of State Social Health Insurance Schemes in Nigeria.  He is a public health physician with 10+ years experience working at subnational and national levels in low and middle income countries. He is experienced in innovative health financing; monitoring, evaluation and learning; domestic resource mobilization for health; and social health insurance scheme administration. He has demonstrated this through initiation of various novel strategies that have resulted in increasing enrolment and access to care for informal sector employees in Anambra State Health Insurance Scheme.