Experience

Geneva Graduate Institute

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Fellow, Global Health Programme

  • Apr 2014 - Present



GH Associates

• Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Director

  • Mar 2014 - Present



World Health Organization

• Switzerland
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Jan 2009 - Mar 2014

  Appointed by WHO Director-General Margaret Chan to help guide WHO’s response to the 2008 financial crisis. The role has progressively broadened: internally, in relation to the strategic and programmatic aspects of WHO reform; externally, to guiding WHO’s role in global health governance and a wide range of international health-related processes. Currently coordinating WHO positioning in relation to the post-2015 development agenda.

• • 2003 - 2009

  Responsible for for MDG policy coordination, health systems strengthening, development of the International Health Partnership (IHP+), as well coordinating WHO’s inputs into successive High Level Forums on Aid Effectiveness in Paris, Accra and Busan.

• • 1999 - 2003

  Responsible for leading on a range of policy issues on behalf of Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland, representing WHO in the creation and development of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Also responsible for coordinating work in relation to the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health and for developing a corporate strategy for WHO.



Independent Consultant

• United Kingdom

• Director

  • 1992 - 1998

  A wide range of work in the field of health policy and health systems development for clients including UK Department for International Development, the World Bank and European Commission. Major projects included organizational and financing reform of the health system in post-1994 South Africa; evaluation of health reforms in the English-speaking Caribbean; identification of strategic opportunities for the UK Government’s health investment in the States of Kerala, Gujerat, Andra Pradesh and West Bengal, India; evaluation of UK health know-how funding in post-Soviet Russia. Conceptual work during this period focused on the development of sector-wide approaches (published by WHO in 1997) based on work in a wide range of countries including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Palestine; Ghana, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa, British Dependent Territories in the Caribbean, Hungary, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan Show less



Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

• Liverpool, UK

• Senior Lecturer

  • 1984 - 1992

  Developed a series of management training courses for medical officers in the State of Orissa, India. Ideas from during this 18 month period subsequently used to prepare a new course on the Management of Primary Health Care for overseas students coming to Liverpool. Developing and teaching the short course was combined with innovative work on the Master’s programme in community health – shifting a predominantly disease focused course to one which prepared students to think more about their role in policy and institutional change. Research interests developed in Liverpool included donor policies in the health sector and the impact of decentralization on health planning and management. Show less



Britain Nepal Medical Trust

• Nepal

• Director

  • 1977 - 1983

  Worked as field doctor for the Britain Nepal Medical Trust, an NGO, in a remote mountainous district of Eastern. Responsibilities: managing TB clinics, training village-level paramedical workers and developing innovative approaches to increase access to basic medicines in under-served areas. As Director of BNMT in Nepal, responsible for full range of the NGO’s activities throughout the Eastern Region of Nepal. Worked as field doctor for the Britain Nepal Medical Trust, an NGO, in a remote mountainous district of Eastern. Responsibilities: managing TB clinics, training village-level paramedical workers and developing innovative approaches to increase access to basic medicines in under-served areas. As Director of BNMT in Nepal, responsible for full range of the NGO’s activities throughout the Eastern Region of Nepal.