Maureen Lewis has spent over 25 years advising government and private sector leaders around the world on health system reforms. Dr. Lewis has held a variety of management and leadership positions in global health, including Chief Economist for Human Development at the World Bank. She is the author of more than 75 research publications and working papers and five books, and is a member of numerous international organizations including the Council on Foreign Relations  Dr. Lewis speaks frequently for private, public and nonprofit audiences across the globe. She has a PhD in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

Jerry La Forgia is a leader in global health and hospitals.  He was formerly Lead Health Specialist for China at the World Bank, leading the dialogue and analytic work for Vice-Premier Liu Yandong in the country’s healthcare reform agenda, as well as the World Bank’s Lead Health Specialist in India and Brazil. His major areas of research include hospital governance and management, quality of care, health insurance, and public-private partnerships for health service delivery. He has worked in these areas across Latin America, South Asia and East Asia. He has an Sc.D. in Health Service Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Scott Wells manages internal services of Aceso Global, including finance, human resources and contracts. Prior to joining the Aceso Global staff, he served for twenty years in other non-profit organizations, most notably as the Operations Director of the Sunlight Foundation, a government transparency and accountability organization. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and a master's degree from Texas Christian University.

Anna Bonfert manages Aceso Global’s Latin America portfolio and supports technical research on health financing, hospital management, and quality. Before joining Aceso Global, she worked at the World Bank focusing on the design and implementation of impact evaluations. Her past work experience in health economics and financing also includes a transition readiness assessment in Brazil for the Global Fund and a research project on health insurance for informal sector workers for GIZ and the Indonesian Ministry of Health. She received a BSc in International Economics from the University of Tübingen in Germany and an MA in Global Human Development from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she focused on health economics and finance. She has lived and worked in multiple Latin American countries, and speaks German, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Jesse Heitner is a health economist with an extensive background in population data analytics and policy analysis. Before joining Aceso Global, he served as Head of Data Analytics for Veritas Health Systems and as a data analytics consultant for the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Isdell-Flowers Cross-Border Malaria Initiative. Dr. Heitner also worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Harvard School of Public Health’s Economics Department and the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department. He has published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. He holds an ScD in Global Health & Population from Harvard University and a Master of Public Policy from U.C. Berkeley.

Kiran Correa researches global healthcare systems with a focus on efficiency, quality, financing and payment systems, and integrated healthcare networks. She supports an array of project teams, including providing considerable technical inputs for Aceso Global’s work on health system reform in India, patient flow analysis in Mexico and the development of a sustainability strategy in Eswatini. Ms. Correa recently co-authored a policy working paper on Accountable Care Organizations in emerging markets. Prior to joining Aceso Global, Ms. Correa worked with Family Planning 2020 and as a political and economics intern at the U.S. Embassy Lisbon. She received a BSFS in Science, Technology and International Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Andre Festekjian researches global trends in foreign direct investment in healthcare, cost containment strategies, and pharmaceutical supply chains. He supports an array of project teams, including providing considerable technical inputs for Aceso Global’s work on population targeting mechanisms for the Joint Learning Network. Prior to joining Aceso Global, he interned at a stock exchange in Argentina conducting economic research and market risk analysis. Mr. Festekjian also interned at the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, where as part of a team, he organized a Latin American Think Tank Summit in the Dominican Republic. Mr. Festekjian received a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He speaks Armenian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Madeleine Lambert researches the capacity of health systems to provide equitable and high quality services to vulnerable populations in the pursuit of  Universal Health Coverage. She supports an array of project teams, including providing considerable technical inputs for Aceso Global’s work on population targeting mechanisms for the Joint Learning Network. Prior to joining Aceso Global, she was a Research Fellow at the Georgetown Global Health Initiative where she studied the impact of rising non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Ms. Lambert also served as an intern at Medecins Sans Frontieres where she provided administrative and research support for the Medical Department. She received a BSFS in Science, Technology and International Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She speaks Spanish and Indonesian.

Alexander Csanadi researches healthcare financing and sustainability of donor-funded programs in health. He is currently supporting Aceso Global’s work on HIV transition planning in Mauritius. His previous research includes investigating the effects of industrial policy in Ghana, as well as the impact of migrant remittances on a variety of development outcomes across sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining Aceso Global, he interned with the US Department of Commerce and at the Peace Corps Headquarters. He also served as Editor-in-Chief for American University’s undergraduate research journal, Clocks and Clouds. He holds a double degree in International Studies and Economics from American University, with an additional certification in Community-Based Research.

Giota Panopoulou is a health economist with over 15 years of professional experience in public health sector institutional restructuring; health system financing; inclusion of pharmaceuticals in public drug formularies and pharmaceutical price negotiations; hospital performance; and design, implementation and evaluation of health reforms. She is currently the Director of Project Planning and Promotion at the Medica Sur Clinical Foundation. Previously she served as an advisor to the Undersecretary of Health in the Mexican Ministry of Health, where she led work on risk-sharing/outcome-based schemes for high-cost drugs across government and the pharmaceutical sector and on performance-based ranking of public hospitals. Dr. Panopoulou has also worked at the Mexican Health Foundation, an influential health policy think tank; as advisor to the CFO of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS); and as a Health Economist at the World Bank in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the Europe and Central Asia regions. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex.

Michael Bourke has managed information systems at two large healthcare chains and at Texas Children’s Hospital. He has extensive expertise in the disciplines needed for the redesign of healthcare processes through information technology, including: IT Strategy, Business Process Redesign, Systems Development, Organizational Assessment and Project Management. He has authored two books on IT strategy and architecture in healthcare. His consulting experience includes work for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and USAID, with projects in Latin America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. In addition to the healthcare sector, Dr. Bourke has extensive experience in the management and development of information systems for banking, foreign trade, education and manufacturing. He was also Professor of MIS at Houston Baptist University, where he directed several programs related to the management of organizations, personnel and information systems, including the MBA program, the MS in IT Management, MS in Healthcare Management and MS in HRM. He has a BA from Boston College, a PhD in Linguistics from Brown University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Pedro Chequer has been a global leader in public health for over 30 years and is widely recognized for his leadership in the field of HIV/AIDS. He launched his career building a network of federal programs that effectively controlled malaria in the Brazilian Amazon during the 1980s, and later headed the Brazilian National Epidemiological Center. Subsequently, he managed the country's highly successful National STD/AIDS Program and served as President of Brazil’s National AIDS Commission. He has worked extensively with UNAIDS, including as the UNAIDS representative for the Russian Federation and as Country Coordinator for Brazil, Mozambique and the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay), and he continues advising UNAIDS as a senior consultant. Dr. Chequer has also worked as a consultant to the Pan-American Health Organization, and as an advisor at the World Bank. Dr. Chequer holds a medical degree from the University of Rio de Janeiro and a MPH in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sandra Dratler has spent her career managing and consulting to acute care and specialty hospitals globally. She is an experienced professional with a unique background in hospital operations, strategy, finance, governance and academia. The past fifteen years, her efforts have been focused on hospital capacity building in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East with an emphasis on strengthening healthcare organizations and their management structures and teams. Prior to that she spent 25 years in senior management positions in hospitals and health systems in the Minneapolis and San Francisco Bay areas.  She has been a lecturer and academic coordinator at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health and Haas School of Business. She serves as senior advisor to Seva Foundation and its Global Sight Initiative and as a senior consultant to the Global Health Sciences Group of the University of California, San Francisco. She received her DrPH from the University of California, Berkeley. She has a Masters in Hospital Administration from the University of Minnesota and BSBA from the University of Denver.

Rob Janett maintains an active practice as a primary care physician at a multi-ethnic public clinic affiliated with the Cambridge Health Alliance.  He is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School as well as an adjunct assistant professor of family medicine at the Brown Alpert School of Medicine.  He consults on health policy issues to the World Bank and other agencies in the Latin America region, and to other healthcare organizations in the U.S.  For the past six years he has led primary care improvement projects in the Saúde Suplementar in Brazil. He is also Senior Policy Advisor at the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association (MACIPA). Until January 2016, he served as the Medical Director for Accountable Care at Care New England Health Systems in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Janett graduated from Haverford College where he studied social anthropology, and earned his medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School. He is board certified in the specialty of internal medicine.

Matthias Loening has broad experience in the health sector with particular focus on private health investment in emerging markets. He has held senior positions across major international financial institutions with responsibility for transaction support, analytical work and policy implementation. For over 10 years, he has acted as the Senior Advisor for the Health Sector at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), where he supports EBRD in building up a health investment practice and represents the Bank on important international health policy issues. He has supported over 50 signed projects with an investment value of over $800 million, covering health segments such as healthcare services, med tech, pharma, biotech and infrastructure PPPs. Dr. Loening was also the Senior Advisor/Health Care Specialist to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank for over 10 years, supporting the Bank’s efforts to scale up private sector engagement in health. Dr. Loening has worked in over 50 countries during his career. He received a BA in Political Science from the University of Iowa, an MHA from the University of Iowa, an MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Rafael Mazin is a public health expert from Mexico, and has spent over 25 years as a Senior Advisor at the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). Over the course of his career, he has provided technical assistance to all PAHO member countries in the planning, implementation and monitoring/evaluation of their national HIV/AIDS programs, as well as in the implementation of specific regional and sub-regional projects and activities. He has deep experience in establishing open and constructive dialogue with diverse stakeholders, including governments, private sector and civil society, and has designed and led numerous training and capacity building workshops for these groups. Dr. Mazin works tirelessly to support improved quality of life for persons affected by the HIV epidemic, and has collaborated in processes geared toward protection of human rights and empowerment of key populations throughout Latin America. In recognition of his advocacy leadership, he received the Golden Medal of the World Association of Sexual Health for life-long achievement in 2017. He is a member of various editorial boards and holds a medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and an MPH from The George Washington University.

Sarah Mintz has extensive experience in change management, effective use of data and health systems strengthening. She previously served as Aceso Global’s Program Director, and has also worked with the World Bank, where she analyzed policies and practices most effective in service delivery, with a particular focus on data analysis and use in public programs. She also worked as a consultant in the private sector, helping social institutions adopt predictive analytics. Ms. Mintz co-founded KnowledgeBeat, a non-profit organization that delivers interactive health and education programs to children in Zambia. She is on the Board of Senitizo, a non-profit organization that provides health services to people without access to healthcare in the Central African Republic. Sarah has a BS from Northwestern University and an MA in Global Human Development from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Jonty Roland is an independent adviser on health system reform and universal health coverage to governments, global institutions and private sector organizations. He has worked in more than 25 countries in areas including health system design, health financing and frugal innovation. Most recently, Jonty was Program Director of the KPMG Center for Universal Health Coverage, where he founded and led a team that secured major consulting projects in 18 countries relating to the design and implementation of UHC. Prior to KPMG, Jonty was Policy Director for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health in the UK Parliament, and before that held various advisory and research positions in the English National Health Service, as well as secondments to the Philippines National Telehealth Center and the Botswana Ministry of Health. He trained at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and has an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Joanne has recently retired from Veteran Health Administration in January 2017 after a 38-year federal career as a clinical operations and implementation expert. Her work experience includes clinical and administrative responsibilities at the local, regional and national levels. Ms. Shear held the role of the National Primary Care Clinical Program Manager for VHA as part of the VHA Primary Care Office and was involved in developing, planning, and leading the implementation of the VHA patient centered medical home model, branded Patient Aligned Care Teams nationally. In her national role she served as a clinical resource in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, administering, and evaluating clinical care and national healthcare policy. Ms. Shear also acted as a consultant to key VHA senior management officials regarding the collection and analysis of system-wide healthcare data and trends, including the integration of measures and models for assessing healthcare trends, care delivery systems, quality, risk, and utilization of resources throughout the nation. She is a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner.

Robert Taylor is a global leader in assessing, developing and implementing hospital PPPs. From 2000 through 2012, he developed and managed the global transaction advisory practice for health PPPs in the International Finance Corporation (IFC) part of the World Bank Group. During his tenure, the Department completed more than 20 successful health PPPs across many regions. As an independent consultant since late 2012, he has advised the EBRD, IFC, AfDB and the Government of Colombia on hospital and health PPPs. His additional areas of expertise include hospital management and performance, provider payment systems and health insurance systems. Prior to his 27-year career at the World Bank Group, he worked in the Canadian Ministry of Finance and as a consultant at KPMG. He holds an MBA. from the University of Western Ontario and an MA and MPA from Queen’s University.

Sofi Bergkvist is an independent adviser to governments, foundations and private companies on universal health coverage and health system strengthening. She co-founded and served as the Executive Director for ACCESS Health International, a think tank with extensive work and offices in India, China, the Philippines, Singapore and the United States. She has developed programs for national and sub-national insurance programs including programs for quality improvement. Ms. Bergkvist has published research on health financing and quality of care in The Lancet and The British Medical Journal. She has also served as a guest lecturer on public-private partnerships, health financing and innovations in healthcare at Wharton School, Stockholm School of Economics and Brown University. She has an MSc in Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics where she focused on health economics.