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Tim Ensor Research Fellow |
Tim Ensor is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, where he leads an international comparative research programme, and works part-time for Oxford Policy Management. Prior to that, he was the leader of the International Programme, Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. He has worked on research and consulting projects in East Asia, Eastern and Central Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa and published extensively. His current interests are in health workforce incentives, international health labour markets and health sector regulation. He has been a major contributor to the development of OPI’s health portfolio. |
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Geeta Kingdon Research Fellow |
Geeta Kingdon is Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London, and was until recently a Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford. She lectures in Development Economics and her research interests include Economics of Education, Labour Economics and the Economics of Happiness, mostly in countries of South Asia and Africa. Her work is based on micro-econometric analysis of survey data and has resulted in more than 25 papers in peer-reviewed economics and development economics journals. She is on the Editorial Board of three academic journals and does extensive academic refereeing as well as advisory work for governments and donor agencies. |
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Raphael Barrett Research Associate |
Raphael Barrett is CEO of the Jamaica National Health Fund which he designed and set up. The NHF is funded by direct taxes on consumption and payroll deduction. It provides subsidies for pharmaceuticals required for the treatment of chronic conditions and grants for health infrastructure development. A feature of the NHF design were 25 year epidemiological and financial projections of the costs of treating the fifteen most burdensome chronic conditions and the financing required for subsidies at different levels. Raphael was formerly the project director in the Ministry of Health, Jamaica. |
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Phillip Crowson Research Associate |
Phillip Crowson is an Honorary Professor and part-time Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law & Policy at the University of Dundee, where he teaches a course on Mineral Economics and Resources Policy. Prior to his retirement he was the Chief Economist at RTZ Corporation. He has written and contributed to several books and many papers and articles on mineral economics, and lectures widely. In 2006, he played a leading part in OPI’s workshop series on `Adding public value: the limits of corporate responsibility’ and wrote a monograph based on it. |
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Evelyn Dietsche Research Associate |
Evelyn Dietsche is a political economist holding a lecturer’s position at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee where she is also pursuing a PhD. She was a consultant economist at Oxford Policy Management and before that an ODI Fellow in the Ministry of Finance, Namibia. She studied development economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies and political science and public policy at the University of Konstanz. Her research interests lie in the political economy of development in natural resource abundant countries. She led a session in the OPI-ESRC Seminar Series on Adding Public Value: the Limits of Corporate Responsibility and has undertaken assignments for OPM in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Palestine. |
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Shubhashis Gangopadhyay Research Associate |
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay was awarded his PhD in Economics by Cornell University, USA in 1983 and his Bachelor's degree by the Presidency College, Kolkata in 1978. He joined the Indian Statistical Institute as a lecturer in 1983 and was promoted to full professor in 1991. He became the founding director of the India Development Foundation, an independent research organization, in 2002. He was awarded a doctorate (honoris causa) by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in October 2006. He has published widely in international journals on economics and finance and has written a number of books on economics and finance. Currently, he is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Emerging Market Finance (Sage Publications), and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Stability (Elsevier). He is a member of the Board of the Centre for Analytical Finance (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad); the Bankruptcy Task Force of IPD, Columbia University; the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Law and Economics of Financial Markets (Copenhagen Business School); and of the South Asia Chief Economist's Advisory Council of the World Bank. He is also the founding President of the Society for the Promotion of Game Theory and its Applications. |
Clare Leaver Research Fellow |
Clare Leaver is a Fellow and Tutor at The Queen’s College, Oxford and a lecturer in the Department of Economics where she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2003 – 2007. She is an Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and an Associate of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation. Her research interests cover public economics, organisational economics, political economy, law and economics. She is working on the Regulation, motivations and the NHS reforms, part of the ESRC Public Services Programme funded by the General Medical Council. |
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Diane McIntyre Research Associate |
Diane McIntyre is Associate Professor in the Health Economics Unit at the University of Cape Town. She is a recognised international authority on equity in health service financing and delivery and has written and consulted widely on this topic. She has managed internationally funded comparative research projects in Southern Africa and elsewhere in association with South African, European and American universities. She has also participated in comparative research projects involving Latin American, East Asian and Central European collaborators. She was the founding coordinator of the Health Economics and Policy Network in Africa (HEPNet) and serves on the Steering Committee of the Regional Network on equity in health in Southern Africa (Equinet). |
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Alex Matheson Research Associate |
Alex Matheson is an independent international consultant and researcher on governance and public management. Over the past two years he has worked as a senior adviser on development projects for IFIs and bilateral donors in South East Asia, the Balkans, Latin America, Southern Africa, and South Asia; as a peer reviewer for the New Zealand Office of the Auditor General; and as a research project leader for the OECD, the New Zealand State Services Commission, and University College Oxford. He was formerly the Division Chief for Budgeting and Management for the OECD’s Governance Directorate, managing research and advisory projects on public sector reforms in OECD countries, and before that, the senior public management advisor for the Commonwealth Secretariat, where he undertook similar work for Commonwealth countries. Before leaving New Zealand he supervised the development of NZ’s second generation public sector reforms in the State Services Commission. He has written widely on public sector reforms. After observing the failure of NPM to take hold outside a limited set of countries, his current interest is in developing approaches to strengthening national governance which take better account of deeper institutional issues. He led OPI’s seminar series on public sector reforms in 1999. |
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Gustavo Nigenda Research Associate |
Gustavo Nigenda is Director of Innovations in Health Systems and Health Services at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. He has worked for the last 15 years assessing the impact of health system reform and the decentralisation process on the performance of health personnel within the health care units and administrative levels. His research has been carried out and coordinated in different Latin American countries (Mexico, Nicaragua, Brazil, Peru and Colombia). More recently, he has been focusing on health systems and services, particularly health system financing, reproductive health program and public and private mix, and household health care. He has been consultant for several organizations including the IADB, World Bank, OECD and the Center for Global Development. He has also been involved in the coordination of Jose Luis Bobadilla Inter-American Network of Health Policy which promotes, disseminates and applies health sector reform experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
Ravindra Rannan-Eliya Research Associate |
Ravindra Rannan-Eliya is the Director of and Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka, which was established in 2005 as a centre of excellence in health policy and economics research. Formerly Associate Fellow and Director, Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka, he was the initiator of the Asia-Pacific Health Economics Network and is the recipient of a number of research awards from international bodies including the World Bank, the Ford Foundation and the European Union. His interests include health financing, national health accounts, implications of ageing, health sector productivity and treatment regime efficiencies. He is the principle investigator and co-ordinator for Equitap, a collaborative network examining health system equity in Asian countries, originally financed by the EU. He led the international session of the ESRC-OPI seminar series on health sector productivity. | |
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Sarah Roberts Research Associate |
Sarah Roberts manages corporate responsibility and strategic sustainability work at Arup. Prior to joining Arup, she led work on corporate responsibility and sustainability at the National Centre for Business and Sustainability, managed corporate social responsibility consulting projects for Arthur D. Little and spent five years working on international sustainability and corporate responsibility issues for the International Institute for Environment and Development. She is a trained facilitator and has designed and managed a variety of multi-stakeholder processes aimed at generating solutions for complex problems such as child labour. She was the principal investigator for the OPI-ESRC Seminar Series on `Adding public value: the limits of corporate responsibility'. |
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Paul Stevens Research Associate |
Paul Stevens is Professor of Petroleum Policy and Economics, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee. He has written widely and is well known internationally for his work on energy policy and was a major intellectual driver in the OPI-ESRC Seminar Series on `Adding Public Value: the Limits of Corporate Responsibility'. |
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Damian Walker Research Associate |
Damian Walker is an Assistant Professor in the Health Systems Program, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a health economist with 10 years experience of undertaking economic evaluations of health care programmes in low- and middle-income countries. He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles. Damian was a co-author of OPI’s monograph on health sector productivity, a result of the 2004 OPI-ESRC Health Sector Productivity Seminar Series. Damian is also a co-convenor of the Campbell and Cochrane Economics Methods Group, with particular responsibility for issues related to low- and middle-income countries. Damian is also an International Visiting Faculty Member of the James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh, and an Honorary Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. http://faculty.jhsph.edu/Default.cfm?faculty_id=1696 |
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Xuezhu Bai Research Associate |
Xuezhu Bai is the Deputy Head (Executive) of the Culture and Languages Centre and the Chief Coordinator for International Courses at the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP). Prior to the completion of his Masters Degree (Victoria University) and PhD (La Trobe University) on Human Resource Management and Employment Relations in Australia, he was the Deputy Head of the Foreign Languages and Literature Department and Head of the Foreign Affairs Office in Huaibei Coal Industry Teachers College in China. He has written widely on linguistics, literature, management, HRM, employment relations, leadership and culture. His current interest is in public management and leadership studies and he is developing approaches to bridge Chinese traditional philosophies with modern management and leadership theories. |
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